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I need informations about register a distribution

Asked by Alessandro Ghersi

Hi, a company contacted me to make a distribution power by kubuntu. They are in the open source business, they make software like Autocad and other professional applications, now they are making a laptop and they want ship it with a Kubuntu customized.

I read https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/22

They need a personal repository and I will change some Kubuntu packages as their needed.
For instance they don't want kmail but thunderbird, I have to make changes in kubuntu-default-settings and kubuntu-desktop, I don't care about cd image size, since they will ship this distribution installed in the laptop, doesn't matters if some build-deps are in Universe, maybe but not sure they want ubuntu software center, a custom kernel for the laptop, nvidia driver installed by default, italian translation by default, and many others little changes like branding etc...so a Kubuntu distribution customized for their laptop.

I'm wondering if there is a possibility to use launchpad to do this, registering a distribution, they don't have resource for now to have a build system like launchpad/soyuz.

If there is no chance to get this, the best for me would register a team in launchpad and open a PPA (I need only i386 arch) to make some customized packages, but I'm wondering what is the max size of the PPA's.

Thanks in advance

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Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi) said : 		#1

Someone can answer please? I should start in the project next week.
Many thanks

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#2

Soyuz is exclusive to Ubuntu. You can use a team with a PPA to create the packages you need. I think you want to create a meta package that defines the default packages your distro wants.

The max size of a PPA is 1G, it can be extended upon request, though you may need a comercial subscription to get the extension (it would also allow to you have a private PPA that is exclusive to your customers). meta-packages take little space.

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Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi) said : 		#3

Hi, the max size of ppa is 2 Gb not 1 GB now :) http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/ppas-now-2-gib

I don't want create just metapackages, but I need to rebuild a lot of packages with some changes.

I think I will need 10 GB since I will rebuild the packages only for ARCH=i386 and I grab most of sources that are already in Ubuntu.

Well, thanks.