[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sweets Distribution

[James Cameron]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 02:37:35AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 12:42:14PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 12:42:00AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:39:00AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:22:25AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:38 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:33:29PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
> > > > > >> Can we have a PPA for Ubuntu?
> > > 
> > > To make OBS[1] choice more clear.
> > > 
> > > It supports, potentially, building for any RPM and DEB based distro.
> > > To make this, multu-distro, build more simple, OBS on
> > > packages.sugarlabs.org was patched to buld all packages from the same
> > > spec file, sweets.recipe[2].
> > > 
> > > The last but not least, OBS builds binaries not only for packages
> > > (like Sweets Distribution repos), but for Sweets[3] (to distribute
> > > via Zero Install) as well.
> > 
> > Are you using OBS now?
> 
> Web client is located on https://packages.sugarlabs.org/.
> API url is https://obs.sugarlabs.org/.
> 
> For now, it builds binaries for Sugar Server Kit and
> Sweets Distribution.
> 
> > Does using OBS work with PPA?
> 
> In what sense?
> What OBS produces (in case of distro packages), is repositories on
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/ that can be attached as regular
> repos in user's environment.

I was trying to calculate why you mentioned OBS in the context of Ma
Xiaojun's question about PPA for Ubuntu.  I see now that you are
explaining something different.  Thanks.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/