Soyuz User Documentation

Upload System

• How to upload ?
  • Packaging: introduce the ubuntu-packaging-guide
  • How to build a package: address orig.tar.gz issues and pbuilder alternative

  • How to upload: dput & dupload usage and config samples for ubuntu primary archive, PPA and PPA overriding the changesfile suite. Reading the dput log output and identifying problems.

• What to expect from a upload ?
  • Brief overview:
    • FTPd-based synchronous queue
    • Isolated but unrecoverable sessions
    • Processed in periodic batches, every 5 minutes.
  • Describe all possible email notification, include 'no notification yet' situation (maybe we could draw a flow-chart)
    • REJECTED
    • NEW
    • UNAPPROVED
    • ACCEPTED
    • 'I've been waiting for 10 minutes and soyuz didn't send me anything'
  • What automatic notification should the user expect ?

    • Announcements to <distro>-changes@ lists ...

Publishing and Build System

• Source accepted, now what ?

  • Incoming sources will show in ubuntu archive within one hour (tops) after they were ACCEPTED.

  • Build request from incoming sources will be scheduled within one hour (tops).
  • Build dispatching according the buildfarm load.
  • ...