Staging area for hardy-proposed ?

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Jun 5 18:22:06 BST 2008


On Thursday 05 June 2008 13:10, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:04:12PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > > I would think that an ordinary PPA could be used for staging such a
> > > series of uploads, and then they could be copied across wholesale by an
> > > archive admin.  Why would a special PPA be needed?
> >
> > My understanding is that with the current PPAs we can only do source
> > copies so build times come into play again, potential bad timing with
> > mirrors etc.
> >
> > Launchpad should soon get private PPAs that will allow binary copies
> > directly to -proposed.
>
> I thought that was already possible.
>
It is.  Riddell has been doing it for Hardy KDE4 backports.

Scott K



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