Personal Package Archvives

Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Yousef Ourabi

Osnews.com is covering an interesting announcement from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Canonical is releasing a new service called “Personal Package Archive” which allows anyone to upload up to 1gb of open source software and the service will automatically compile it and create and apt repository for the user.

This is a big deal in my opinion and plays well into Canonicals server ambitions — many small shops who don’t have a lot of time could use this server to synchronize any software they need that isn’t installed via a default repository across multiple machines. This would normally be done by either compiling from source several times, or rolling your own deb packages.

Here is the link to the Canonical announcment: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/launchpad-ppa

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