Tag Archives: ppa

Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu

September 14, 2009 – 4:59 pm

One of the things I love about the Ubuntu project and launchpad is the Personal Package Archive. PPAs make it so simple and easy to backport packages. The only problem with PPAs is that they are public. I had a need to be able to host some private internal packages as well as squid with [...]

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Launchpad PPA builder status

April 16, 2009 – 3:55 pm

I uploaded some packages to my Launchpad PPA today. Normally they would build in not less than 20 minutes, however 2 hours later I was still waiting. All my googling for a build bot status page led to nothing useful. wgrant on #launchpad pointed me at https://launchpad.net/builders/ which I though I would note here to [...]

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