Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September

[npwx]

That is because they don't have a bunch of custom patchsets like Ubuntu does. If one of their patches fails to apply correctly then their builds likely end up breaking until the offender is rebased properly.

Well if you don't have the manpower than maybe don't apply random crap to your kernel. You would think that after so many years they are aware of the costs.

[ahrs]

Well if you don't have the manpower than maybe don't apply random crap to your kernel. You would think that after so many years they are aware of the costs.

They have the manpower they're just all occupied with the Ubuntu kernels that they actually support. The mainline kernel PPA is almost expected to break. It's for testing.

[ElectricPrism]

I rarely visit Launchpad, but after a brief visit their interface is slightly improved, but poking around their last Blog Update was ... 12 years ago?

https://launchpad.net/launchpad/+announcements

Considering how Canonical has a way of discontinuing in-house things I would cheer if Launchpad and PPA went away. It feels like a antique.

Update: I now see there is a second blog scroll on the homepage at the bottom.

I really do applaud other projects for modernizing utilizing GitLab, Codeberg and whatever else -- they are a much better fit for people under 30 and under 20 who have no experience with these old techs increasing engagements.

[timrichardson]

from

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kernel-team

"On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:06:49 -0400
David Fyfe <david.fyfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good evening.
>
> I'm sure you are aware there have not been any updates to the mainline
> kernels index at https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/?C=N;O=D since
> September 15th.
>
> If they have been moved, I didn't see any notification. Can you please let
> me know the status?

The builders are being moved to a different data center. Mainline builds will
show up again once they're up and running. No ETA."

[morph027]

Looks like new folders appeared but with no artifacts inside.

[morph027]

How do you build it, do you also have a script?

Just in case, this is how i build for testing.

docker run --rm -it -v kernel-ccache:/ccache -e CCACHE_DIR=/ccache -w /tmp ubuntu:noble
apt-get -qq update
apt-get -qqy bc bison build-essential ccache cpio debhelper-compat fakeroot flex gawk gcc-13 gcc-14 git install kmod libelf-dev libssl-dev lsb-release ncurses-dev python3 rsync xz-utils zstd
export PATH=/lib/ccache:$PATH
git clone --depth=1 -b cod/mainline/v6.11.7 git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel-test/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/mainline-crack
cd mainline-crack
sed -i -e 's,# ARCH:.*,# ARCH: amd64,' -e 's,# FLAVOUR:.*,# FLAVOUR: amd64,' ./debian.master/config/annotations
# f you like to stick to default gcc for noble (gcc-14 otherwise):
# sed -i -re 's/export gcc\?=.*/export gcc?=gcc-13/' debian/rules.d/0-common-vars.mk
fakeroot debian/rules defaultconfigs
fakeroot debian/rules binary-headers binary-generic binary-perarch
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[Keith Myers]

The Mainline PPA finally got around to backfilling all the missing artifacts. So the server relocation must have been completed with the servers up and running again.