Ubuntu PPA

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Jun 17 2011, 8:45 am
Hello I was curious as to if we could get a ppa for the linux version of byond
so that they update along with everything else on a users system when there is a new version

I believe ppa work on Debian/Ubuntu Systems
please correct me if I'm wrong
Jun 17 2011, 12:56 pm
Well, having run basically this a while back, here's the issue:

- There's a lot of distros for Linux.
- They all enjoy packaging things differently.
- No-one particularly enjoys being responsible for this.

I used to maintain repos for Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.4 Debian 4.0, 5.0 Fedora 10, 11, 12 and Gentoo x86/amd64.

You couldn't really automate the process of picking up new versions too well, as people had differing requirements. Some people wanted the beta available, some didn't. Which meant for Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora that you actually needed duplicate repositories, to offer a 'testing' branch of packages.

Although fairly automated, the maintenance process for this was pretty insane, and testing of packages relied more on "nothing's changed hopefully" as opposed to actually having a test process.
Sep 17 2011, 9:26 pm
In response to Stephen001
Hmm, I never thought about all the work that goes on behind the scenes

I'll just upgrade my self
Sep 20 2011, 2:16 pm
In response to Stephen001
Don't most packages have some kind of automated build process?

Also, I suppose I could whip up some kind of launcher script that installed BYOND / checked for updates whenever it was ran.
That would be a slightly better solution than what is the cluster of information on the Linux Guild.
Sep 21 2011, 12:26 am
In response to Flame Sage
Right, which I made. But you still need to test the package, and that's a lot of architectures and distros to test it on.