PPA using existing builds

Mario Limonciello superm1 at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 7 16:12:30 BST 2007


Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> Quoting Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com>:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been attempting to make use of PPAs for the last few days, but
>> been having troubles.
>>
>> I have two applications that I wanted to build.  The second one needs to
>> use the binaries that were produced from the first.  It's appearing as
>> though these aren't available in the package lists on the PPA when
>> trying to build the second.
>>
>> Is there a way to add them?
> 
> They are automatically added but it takes a while.
> 
> If your PPA package A depends on PPA package B, upload B, wait until  
> you see it in your repository, then upload A. You can set a queue  
> delay to build A, as well, but I would not recommend it as you cannot  
> be sure how long after building will it take for B to move to the  
> repository.
> 
> For instance, in my PPA I have 'witty' which depends on 'asio' and 'mxml'.
> 
Well the upload that depended on a binary in the PPA was already
uploaded (and of course failed).  Is there a method to just requeue it
into the build queue so that I don't need to do the version number bump
and reupload dance?

Mario

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