PPA

[suntong]

Can you put all your go github release related packages into a central PPA pls?

[mh-cbon]

I don't know how to do that.

[suntong]

So, instead of putting them in each of their repository in gh-pages (as in #5, I assume), is it possible that you create one gh-pages based repository to hold them all?

[mh-cbon]

i think i see what you mean.

Basically that means to execute this for as many package to add,
https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/blob/master/setup-repository.sh#L95

[suntong]

Thx. Then can you create a repo, say PPA, and put all your go github release related packages there pls?
It'll be much convenient for me or other people, than to download them one by one. Thx.

[mh-cbon]

i want to consider #1

https://snapcraft.io/create/

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd

[suntong]

i want to consider #1 <#1>

Oh, a different packaging tool. Sure, go for it, if you have more time, but you are not forsaking the majority of the folks who use the apt repo in the meantime, right?

[mh-cbon]

Lets do a quick script that does just the job

[mh-cbon]

Hi,

I added a script to setup a ppa
https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/blob/master/go-bin-deb-utils/setup-ppa.go

you can proceed to manual testing with
https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/tree/master/go-bin-deb-utils

you can try a ppa here
https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/tree/gh-pages/ppa

[suntong]

Horay~~~! I'll test it out this weekend.

[suntong]

Hmm..., several questions,

you can try a ppa here
https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/tree/gh-pages/ppa

1. So this ppa is still generated under the given project (e.g., go-bin-deb here), instead of all your tools in one or two central PPAs, right? is a central PPA that hold releases from different projects possible?
2. How was the ppa generated? Did you generate it manually, or via .travis.yml triggering? If so, where can I find the build log?
3. How can such ppa be used? Have you try to install something from this ppa? Can you show me the apt-cache policy output of such installed packages?

Thanks

[mh-cbon]

• So this ppa is still generated under the given project (e.g., go-bin-deb here), instead of all your tools in one or two central PPAs, right? is a central PPA that hold releases from different projects possible?

this is only a wip with a staging ppa for testing.

but yes that d be the idea.

• How was the ppa generated? Did you generate it manually, or via .travis.yml triggering? If so, where can I find the build log?

Please check https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/tree/master/go-bin-deb-utils

You can check travis log of this repo indeed, look at the last tag, not commit,
https://travis-ci.org/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/builds

You can also start vagrant to run it locally on your own repo.
One might prefer docker, up to him.

• How can such ppa be used? Have you try to install something from this ppa? Can you show me the apt-cache policy output of such installed packages?

From i what i understood, it is a regular source repo with multiple packages. Nothing more. No fancy commands to install all its package. But yeah, on source to get them all.

Please check https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/tree/master/go-bin-deb-utils
It contains information you are looking for, i believe so.

I m not super aware of apt/dnf practices, I did not know that command.
Need to check and probably to add it to the readme here
https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/tree/master/go-bin-deb-utils

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spawn a vagrant box,
give it a try to this ppa,
test the function you want and list the question you have,
let see what to do then with this idea.

[suntong]

Oh, yeah, gotya now.

Yeah, it's very much so, that it is a regular source binary repo with multiple packages. I did a comparison with my ppa on launchpad, e.g.,

http://ppa.launchpad.net/suntong001/ppa/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/
vs.
https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-deb/tree/gh-pages/ppa/public/dists/all/contrib

The structure and content looks the same.

Oh, wait, I remember why I asked the question now --

The tree/gh-pages should not be in the url. I.e., everything should be under http://mh-cbon.github.io/go-bin-deb/ppa/, e.g., http://mh-cbon.github.io/go-bin-deb/ppa/public/dists/all/contrib but I get 404 for them.

Now I've seen the build log and am convinced that the ppa is generated via .travis.yml triggering. :-) So I'll continue watching your progress, until we reach to our goal, collecting all your tool into a single ppa.

Mean while, please try out my small ppa on launchpad, and install a small package, say histring:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/suntong001-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list 
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/suntong001/ppa/ubuntu xenial main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/suntong001/ppa/ubuntu xenial main

$ apt-cache policy histring
histring:
  Installed: 1.1.0-1
  Candidate: 1.1.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.0-1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/suntong001/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I'm sure it'll come handy when you test out your ppa on gh-pages.

cheers

[mh-cbon]

The tree/gh-pages should not be in the url.

I don't get what you mean see
http://mh-cbon.github.io/go-bin-deb/ppa/public/dists/all/contrib/Contents-amd64.gz
http://mh-cbon.github.io/go-bin-deb/ppa/go-bin-deb.list

Now I've seen the build log and am convinced that the ppa is generated via .travis.yml triggering. :-)

yeah, there s also a builder on top of vagrant. Some updates needs to be applied on it to make it a bit faster, and also to better manage git. It all grew up a bit too organically.
see corresponding repo issues.

Mean while, please try out my small ppa on launchpad, and install a small package, say histring:

Please explain your thoughts, i did try install software out of the ppa, it worked.

thanks!

[suntong]

i did try install software out of the ppa, it worked.

The question is how you installed it. What I meant is that,

You add the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/suntong001-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list according to above content. Or, do as explained in https://launchpad.net/~suntong001/+archive/ubuntu/ppa:

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this PPA by adding ppa:suntong001/ppa to your system's Software Sources:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:suntong001/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Then, to install histring, just do:

apt-get install histring
apt-cache policy histring

Is that what you did? or you installed via dpkg?