ppa builds for

[Cruz Julian Bishop]

Perhaps the OpenSUSE build service will build it for other
architectures? I know they do at least i386 and amd64,
but not sure about the others

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 17:36 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> On 09/13/2012 05:31 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> > Hi everyone, just a simple question, boinc-app-seti according to [1]
> is built for 5 platforms, may I know why into my ppa [2] and [3] I can
> build only for 386 and amd64?
> >
> > I'm asking this because so people asks me why boinc-app-seti is
> packaged only for 386 and amd64 (almost useless on these two
> architectures) and not for other archs.
> >
> > Unfortunately ubuntu is really behind upstream versions
> > 6.12~svn1305-2ubuntu1 VS 6.97~svn1409-1
> >
> > (new fourier transforms and so on, so useful for arm* and powerpc)
> >
> > [1]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1305-2ubuntu1
> > [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc
> > [3]
> https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/locutusofborg-ppa
> >
> > many thanks for the attention
> > Just my 0.02 $
> >
> > Gianfranco
> >
> This would probably make more sense on the Launchpad users list, but
> PPAs only build for i386 and amd64.  If you'd like to get a new
> version onto older Ubuntu releases for other archs, simply request a
> backport.  (requestbackport is in ubuntu-dev-tools on 12.04 and later)
> 
> Thanks,
> Micah
>