Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2014-11-06 Thread Ryan Oram
On Fri Jul 9 23:08:14 BST 2010, Joshua Timberman wrote: > Actually, the difference is that sbuild uses schroot with LVM snapshots for > the chroot environments. It's quite a nice, elegant system and I prefer it to > pbuilder for developing packages. Ya, I can definitely see why sbuild would be u

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-09 Thread Ryan Oram
On Sat Jul 10 00:34:53 BST 2010, Joao Pinto wrote: > I am sorry but you are not correct, GetDeb only does packaging when such is > required, we try to avoid redundant work and package forking. Re-using > Ubuntu, Debian and PPAs building rules is a requirement if you intend to > minimize dependency

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-09 Thread Joao Pinto
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Ryan Oram wrote: > On Fri Jul 9 23:08:14 BST 2010, Joshua Timberman wrote: > > Actually, the difference is that sbuild uses schroot with LVM snapshots > for the chroot environments. It's quite a nice, elegant system and I prefer > it to pbuilder for developing pac

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-09 Thread Ryan Oram
On Fri Jul 9 23:08:14 BST 2010, Joshua Timberman wrote: > Actually, the difference is that sbuild uses schroot with LVM snapshots for > the chroot environments. It's quite a nice, elegant system and I prefer it to > pbuilder for developing packages. Ya, I can definitely see why sbuild would be u

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-09 Thread Joshua Timberman
Hello! On Jul 9, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Ryan Oram wrote: > The only difference is that pbuilder automates a bit more. I > stand completely corrected. Actually, the difference is that sbuild uses schroot with LVM snapshots for the chroot environments. It's quite a nice, elegant system and I prefer i

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-09 Thread Ryan Oram
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Joao Pinto wrote: > Ryan, > while your first answer demonstrated you are not properly informed on the > technical aspects of either the proper Ubuntu archives or PPAs, this second > one show you don't have any clue about how GetDeb works. When I was writing that re

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-09 Thread Joao Pinto
Ryan, while your first answer demonstrated you are not properly informed on the technical aspects of either the proper Ubuntu archives or PPAs, this second one show you don't have any clue about how GetDeb works. Anyway I was just trying to point you in what I believed to be a better direction. If

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Ryan Oram
way it can be made better. I respect your project and appreciate the progress it has enabled by allowing developers to release their applications outside of the Ubuntu system, which has been at times too strict and a bit unforgiving. However, the lack of Launchpad integration is major sticking po

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Joao Pinto
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Ryan Oram wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Joao Pinto wrote: > > Did you read http://wiki.getdeb.net/AutomatedBuildSystem ? > > We have experienced some hosting problems on the last couple of months > which > > had a major impact on our availability, we e

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Soren Hansen
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:59:19PM -0400, Ryan Oram wrote: >> Our packages use sbuild (I believe the official archive also uses >> it), I am not aware of safety checks applied at PPAs, can you >> ellaborate ? > Ubuntu, Debian, and all Launchpad PPAs use pbuilder to create their > packages. No, the

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Ryan Oram
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Joao Pinto wrote: > Did you read http://wiki.getdeb.net/AutomatedBuildSystem ? > We have experienced some hosting problems on the last couple of months which > had a major impact on our availability, we expect to recover full > operationally soon. > > Our packages u

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Joao Pinto
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Ryan Oram wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 17:45 -0400 BST, Joao Pinto > wrote: > > Why set up another project instead of participating in GetDeb ? > > What do you expect to achieve with "Ubuntu AppUpdate" that you can't with >

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Ryan Oram
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 17:45 -0400 BST, Joao Pinto wrote: > Why set up another project instead of participating in GetDeb ? > What do you expect to achieve with "Ubuntu AppUpdate" that you can't with > GetDeb ? I believe I sent you an e-mail asking if your team wanted to

Re: Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Joao Pinto
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Ryan Oram wrote: > I'm looking at setting up a update service for Ubuntu Lucid called > "Ubuntu AppUpdate". Developers would notify the team of their app > updates and we would push them to our repo. It will be similar to > GetDeb,

Ubuntu AppUpdate

2010-07-08 Thread Ryan Oram
I'm looking at setting up a update service for Ubuntu Lucid called "Ubuntu AppUpdate". Developers would notify the team of their app updates and we would push them to our repo. It will be similar to GetDeb, but it will be based around Launchpad and PPAs and would have more extens