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Delete ppa packages

Asked by Everaldo Canuto

I just delete a package from:

  ppa:cubieboard/dev
  (also same for)
  ppa:cubieboard/main

Documentation tell us that package will be removed in 30 minutes and looking at this address package looks to be deleted:

   http://ppa.launchpad.net/cubieboard/dev/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sunxi-tools/

But my build log still shows:

  DEBUG Considering changefile 57018/ubuntu/sunxi-tools_1.2-0~2~ubuntu14.04.1_source.changes
  DEBUG Finding fresh policy
  INFO Processing upload sunxi-tools_1.2-0~2~ubuntu14.04.1_source.changes
  INFO Upload was rejected:
  INFO File sunxi-tools_1.2.orig.tar.gz already exists in PPA for Cubieboard (dev), but uploaded version has different contents. See more information about this error in https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/UploadErrors.
  INFO File sunxi-tools_1.2-0~2~ubuntu14.04.1.debian.tar.gz already exists in PPA for Cubieboard (dev), but uploaded version has different contents. See more information about this error in https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/UploadErrors.
  INFO Files specified in DSC are broken or missing, skipping package unpack verification.
  INFO Committing the transaction and any mails associated with this upload.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

It's not possible to upload a different package with the same version, even if you've deleted the old one. Increase the package's version and upload again.

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Everaldo Canuto (ecanuto) said : 		#2

Well, I know about this but the problem is that I can't change package version. Old one was just a test and now I am uploading a package that is official in Utopic and I just want to build it for Thrust.

Theres no other packages in this ppa, can you clear it this time?

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#3

Your only option is to delete the entire PPA and then recreate it.

How did you end up with different orig tarballs in the first place? They should be bit-identical to the tarballs released by upstream.

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Everaldo Canuto (ecanuto) said : 		#4

I have no idea, maybe tarballs are different because I use .tar.gz and now official packages use .tar.xz. Thats the only reason I can found becuse sources are identical.

So, I just delete both ppa's:

  ppa:cubieboard/dev
  ppa:cubieboard/main

How I can have it completelly deleted to recreate again?

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#5

It can take up to half an hour before you can reuse a deleted PPA's name. Try now.

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Everaldo Canuto (ecanuto) said : 		#6

Perfect. Just one last thing, could you please enable armhf again?

And sorry for so many requests, I am trying to create a ubuntu distro for Cubietruck boards.

Thanks a lot.

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Best William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#7

Done on both.

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Everaldo Canuto (ecanuto) said : 		#8

Thank you very much!

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Everaldo Canuto (ecanuto) said : 		#9

Thanks William Grant, that solved my question.