Friday, August 26, 2016

Can I upload binary packages to a Launchpad PPA?




Well, I have a launchpad account and a just set up a PPA.



Since I don't have generated source packages, I'd like to upload my binary packages to the PPA.



Though it seems not possible... Is there a way to avoid create source packages?



No. You can only upload source packages to a PPA, for security and licensing (open-source) reasons; Launchpad will then build it into binary packages for you.


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