Olivier Tilloy wrote: > Greetings Launchpad users, > > During the past week I've been building in my PPA [1] successive > versions of the same packages for internal pre-release testing purposes. > As requested for the build to succeed, each time I was uploading a new > source package, I bumped the version number (the <n> component in > ~karmic1ubuntu<n> at the end of the package name). And that worked fine. > > But it happened that the original source tarballs had some changes too > between some of the builds. I assumed they were re-uploaded each time > along with the source packages, so I didn't bother bumping their version > numbers. > > And it appears that all the builds were done using the source tarballs > uploaded for the first build, all the subsequent tarballs with the same > version numbers were ignored. > > Is that a bug in the build system, or the expected behaviour?
I'm not an expert, but the behavior you describe is what I'd expect. > The mail launchpad sends to confirm that a build has been accepted and > is pending is not really clear about it. E.g.: > > Accepted: > OK: moovida-plugins-ugly_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz > OK: moovida-plugins-ugly_1.0.8-1fluendo1~ppa1~karmic1ubuntu3.diff.gz > OK: moovida-plugins-ugly_1.0.8-1fluendo1~ppa1~karmic1ubuntu3.dsc > -> Component: main Section: gnome > > It doesn't mention that the orig.tar.gz file is re-used from previous > builds. The only way for me to notice would be to compare the sha checksums. > > In any case, is there a way (other than bumping the version numbers) I > can force uploading the updated source tarballs? Why do you want to have the same version number on different tarballs? That sounds like a recipe for confusion! Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
