Archive-related services¶
Note
This page is a seed which will document which services are where, and how they work. The previous list is being replaced as services are migrated to become charmed hosted services.
This page documents the services used by the Archive Administrators and how they work.
List of services on ubuntu-archive-toolbox¶
Seeds/germinate¶
Debian auto-import¶
When the next version of Ubuntu is in full development, we will automatically
pull some packages from Debian unstable into the new series’ -proposed
pocket. Importantly, we’re only importing the sources, and rebuild the binaries
from scratch.
The service is set up on the ubuntu-archive-toolbox machine, as a cronjob
running every 6 hours. The script itself is auto-sync in the
ubuntu-archive-tool
repo.
Packages eligible for the sync are any package that doesn’t have
Ubuntu-specific changes. The heuristic is based on version number: if it
contains ubuntu, it is considered to have a delta.
In addition to delta-containing packages, some packages are entirely exluded from the sync through the sync-blocklist.
Disabling auto-import¶
To disable auto-import, the usual procedure is to edit the
ubuntu-archive-toolbox crontab to add a --dry-run parameter to the
appropriate line, e.g.
# Before
0 5,11,17,23 * * * PYTHONPATH=/home/ubuntu-archive/python auto-sync --log-directory ~/public_html/auto-sync --batch
# After
0 5,11,17,23 * * * PYTHONPATH=/home/ubuntu-archive/python auto-sync --dry-run --log-directory ~/public_html/auto-sync --batch
This allows for the continuing generation of logs, potentially useful for monitoring.