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two questions about ppa; multiple series and multiple architectures

Asked by David Sugar

I just got my first successful package build through ppa. But this left me with two relevant questions.

First, while ppa is supposed to support i386 and lpia targets as well, launchpad ppa only produced amd64 binary packages for me, and shows no further builds pending:

from ucommon_2.0.4-2~ppa1.dsc:

Format: 1.0
Source: ucommon
Binary: libucommon-doc, libucommon-dev, libucommon2, libucommon2-dbg
Architecture: any

The control (and dsc) has "architecture: any", so I presumed ppa would build binary deb's for all three supported architectures, not just amd64, as per Debian policy.

Second, I locally use a common source package set to build for intrepid, hardy, and jaunty through my local pbuilder. How can I specify multiple distribution series, since the .changes files seems to require me to specify only one? Or do I really have to create and upload separate source sets to rebuild for each distro series as suggested in #50883? It just seemed...inefficient :).

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Celso Providelo Edit question
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2009-03-09 leonardr: Assigning PPA question to cprov
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David Sugar (dyfet-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Currently, all valid architectures now seem built in my ppa area for my package! I think maybe this question is really a ui issue, because originally I only saw amd64 completed and nothing indicating any further builds were even pending...

Furthermore, looking at the package create times, it looks like the missing i386 and lpia packages were built only some 20 minutes later.

Again, since it was the first package I tried with ppa, and I was doing this around 2am, I was not already familiar with this quirk, and hence assumed the ui state presented that the build was already "complete", and only contained amd64 packages, was valid...

Of course, for my second question, I had originally looked in the answers list, where I came across 50883...

I think this item can be closed. I also think I will try building my other packages in ppa a bit later in the week. I am very happy with the process overall.