Only pre-approved combinations of targets are permitted

[Iain Lane]

When you are selecting where a silo should be uploaded to, the system only offers you a selection of pre-defined combinations. Yesterday I wanted to upload a desktop release to Y and X as normal SRU, but that wasn't available to me.

Can you think of a good UI that lets users upload to more combinations of real and overlay releases?

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Hi laney,

This y+x upload you wanted to do, was it an mp against an lp project? Or were you just working with manual sources?

As a workaround you could have just used a y+x+v silo and then just manually copied packages to the respective archives when you were ready (and ignored v).

The backend supports arbitrary combinations of series names, so it's just a UI limitation that only offers y+x+v, but the only catch is that it's hard-coded to target the first one to main archive and all subsequent ones to overlay ppa. So it would be trivial to add y+x as an option, but there isn't really a good way to specify which bits go to archive and which to overlay.

It's not hard to envision, eg, a checklist, that lists the supported series and let's you pick arbitrary combinations for your silo, but it's less obvious to me how you'd specify which series target archive vs overlay.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Dmitri proposed that the UI for this should be checkboxes per-series, with a dropdown for target PPA per series. He specifically requested the following combinations:

Z
Z with X and Y SRUs
Z with Y SRUs
Z with X overlay

(currently only Z and Z with X overlay are supported)

I agree with this proposal it's just a matter of finding some time for it.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Made some progress on this today. The UI still hard-codes pre-approved combos, but the backend now at least supports secondary serieses that aren't targeting overlay. Enjoy the new "zesty, yakkety" and "zesty, yakkety, xenial" options which are SRU options.