[Beowulf] A press release

Chris Samuel csamuel at vpac.org
Sat Jul 5 03:30:50 PDT 2008


----- "Jon Aquilina" <eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:

> one thing must not be forgotten though. in regards to pkging stuff for
> the ubuntu variation once someone like you and me you upload it for
> someone higher up on the chain to check and upload to the servers. so
> basically someone is checking what someone else has packaged.

Ubuntu has the concept of a Personal Package Archive (PPA)
which will build x86 and AMD64 packages from a source package
that you provide and builds a repo from them that you (and others)
can apt-get from.

https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart

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