the only thing i have see ppa used for is obtaining amarok 2 nightly builds.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Chris Samuel <<a href="mailto:csamuel@vpac.org">csamuel@vpac.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>----- "Jon Aquilina" <<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>> one thing must not be forgotten though. in regards to pkging stuff for<br>> the ubuntu variation once someone like you and me you upload it for<br>> someone higher up on the chain to check and upload to the servers. so<br>
> basically someone is checking what someone else has packaged.<br><br>Ubuntu has the concept of a Personal Package Archive (PPA)<br>which will build x86 and AMD64 packages from a source package<br>that you provide and builds a repo from them that you (and others)<br>
can apt-get from.<br><br><a href="https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart" target="_blank">https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart</a><br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br></font>
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