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Failure: Copy from another Launchpad PPA source has expired binaries

Asked by SFEN

Hi,

I wanted to copy the binary package (binary only) gcc-11 - 11.4.0-2ubuntu1~20.04 from ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test so that I can have access to gcc-11 in 20.04 during my build but I got an error instead: Launchpad encountered an error during the following operation: copying package gcc-11. gcc-11 11.4.0-2ubuntu1~20.04 in focal (source has expired binaries). Then I attempted to copy the source and compile but encountered other errors during the upload phase: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/715051258/upload_27790764_log.txt basically it says the package version is older than that in the archive. I currently don't have gcc-11 in my ppa so I don't know why I was getting these errors. On the other hand I don't know how to get access to other PPA other than the one I am currently uploading to. For example, I wanted to have access to ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test but as far as I know, I can only have access to the official Ubuntu repositories and my own PPA during package generation. If I can have access to other PPAs then I don't need to copy gcc-11 anymore.

Thank you!

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Maybe you are looking for https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Depending_on_other_PPAs

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said (last edit ): 		#2

AN explanation for the upload rejects like
INFO lib32atomic1_11.4.0-2ubuntu1~20.04_amd64.deb: Version older than that in the archive. 11.4.0-2ubuntu1~20.04 <= 13.1.0-8ubuntu1~20.04.2

There is gcc-13 in the PPA, which contains a deb file with lib32atomic1 version 13.1.0-8ubuntu1~20.04.2
So it does not make sens to upload a deb file with lib32atomic1 from gcc-11 with version 11.4.0-2ubuntu1~20.04

Whoever uses your PPA will automatically get the higher version (from gcc-13).
This, however, will most probably also be the case, if you try using gcc-11 from elsewhere, as long as there is a version of gcc-13 in your PPA.

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SFEN (sfen) said : 		#3

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Samriz (sam1232) said : 		#4

I was also looking for this. Thank you