<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 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] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1305-2ubuntu1">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1305-2ubuntu1</a> > [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc">https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc</a> > [3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/locutusofborg-ppa">https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/locutusofborg-ppa</a> > > 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 </body> </html>