Backport to Lucid Lynx (10.04)

Zerocool · 05-24-2010, 01:06 PM

The current version of Calibre has been nominated for backporting to Lucid Lynx. Marking the bug report as also affecting you might help speed things along.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid-backports/+bug/585045

kovidgoyal · 05-24-2010, 01:14 PM

You should be able to run the calibre binary directly on 10.04

Zerocool · 05-24-2010, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You should be able to run the calibre binary directly on 10.04

Agreed. But it might be helpful to have the package in the repository for those of us that keep up to date this way (and to easily upgrade for those with the official version already installed from the repository).

kovidgoyal · 05-24-2010, 01:26 PM

Sure, but realistically speaking, given that calibre is released once a week, there's no way a binary distro is going to be able to keep up.

If you want bleeding edge, use a source based distro like gentoo or exherbo.

tonyx3 · 05-24-2010, 10:48 PM

Yeah, this has always confused me a bit.

I'm not 100% clear on how it all works, but it seems that even though the official repositories for Ubuntu can't keep up, couldn't the latest version just be set up in its own PPA, so a user could just add it as a custom software source and then the update manager would find the latest packages, or at least use aptitude to install it?

I know you can get things like the daily build of Firefox or Chromium that way.

Or is there something in the way calibre is written that doesn't allow that...??

kovidgoyal · 05-24-2010, 11:34 PM

It could if there was someone willing to maintain the PPA, I'm not.

Zerocool · 05-28-2010, 10:50 AM

I'd be happy to host the PPA depending on how much maintenance (i.e. getting updated builds) could be automated

kovidgoyal · 05-28-2010, 01:44 PM

It's not hosting that's the problem. It's building the debs. I have no experience with that, so I can't really help.

There is a branch of calibre source code that is maintained by the maintainer of the official ubuntu calibre package, you could probably base your work off that.

Zerocool · 06-01-2010, 11:00 PM

I did notice that the source was available in launchpad. With a little tweaking it should be possible to automate package building using the AutoPPA tool working off this source. I don't want to cause any confusion with the officially maintained packages though.

05-24-2010, 01:06 PM	#1
Zerocool Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPad	Backport to Lucid Lynx (10.04) The current version of Calibre has been nominated for backporting to Lucid Lynx. Marking the bug report as also affecting you might help speed things along. https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid-backports/+bug/585045

06-01-2010, 11:00 PM	#9
Zerocool Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPad	I did notice that the source was available in launchpad. With a little tweaking it should be possible to automate package building using the AutoPPA tool working off this source. I don't want to cause any confusion with the officially maintained packages though. Last edited by Zerocool; 06-01-2010 at 11:00 PM. Reason: Grammer

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05-24-2010, 01:14 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You should be able to run the calibre binary directly on 10.04

05-24-2010, 01:26 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Sure, but realistically speaking, given that calibre is released once a week, there's no way a binary distro is going to be able to keep up. If you want bleeding edge, use a source based distro like gentoo or exherbo.

05-24-2010, 10:48 PM	#5
tonyx3 Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus One	Yeah, this has always confused me a bit. I'm not 100% clear on how it all works, but it seems that even though the official repositories for Ubuntu can't keep up, couldn't the latest version just be set up in its own PPA, so a user could just add it as a custom software source and then the update manager would find the latest packages, or at least use aptitude to install it? I know you can get things like the daily build of Firefox or Chromium that way. Or is there something in the way calibre is written that doesn't allow that...??

05-24-2010, 11:34 PM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It could if there was someone willing to maintain the PPA, I'm not.

05-28-2010, 10:50 AM	#7
Zerocool Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPad	I'd be happy to host the PPA depending on how much maintenance (i.e. getting updated builds) could be automated

05-28-2010, 01:44 PM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It's not hosting that's the problem. It's building the debs. I have no experience with that, so I can't really help. There is a branch of calibre source code that is maintained by the maintainer of the official ubuntu calibre package, you could probably base your work off that.

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