PPA-WAIT(1)

📦 version 0.7.0, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

ppa wait — the command that just sits there (lovingly) until PPA is done processing your uploads 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ppa wait [-h | --help] [-l | --log] <ppa-name>

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay bestie, so ppa wait is literally the chillest little command. It checks whether the packages in the archive you gave it have been built and published yet. How? It polls Launchpad, shows you status on the console, and then dips out with an appropriate error code once Launchpad has finished processing the package(s). No cap. 👑

The way this is meant to be used is inside a workflow or a script — you know, those moments where you need the next steps to chill until the packages in the archive are actually ready to be downloaded for use. Like: you upload a package with a proposed fix to a PPA, you wait for it to build, and then you automatically run tests against it the second it's available. Main character automation energy. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

The following options can be used with the ppa wait command.

  • -h, --help — prints the usage for ppa wait, plus all the options it supports. Your lil cheat sheet. 🫶
  • -l, --log — prints ongoing status to the console, and does it without screen clearing.

So here's the vibe normally: the terminal gets cleared between each polling update, which means the terminal visually looks like nothing changed unless something actually happened. Kinda spooky, lowkey. But with this option specified, the screen will not clear — instead, the status of each polling update gets concatenated to the standard output. A whole scrollback of receipts. 💅

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

ppa exits with status 0 if the package(s) have been successfully built and published. Otherwise? A non-zero error code. That's it, that's the whole mood. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 PPA 👑

Part of the ppa-dev-tools(1) suite. Family. 🧚

Signed, sealed, delivered — this page is from Ppa-Dev-Tools 0.7, dated 2024-05-23, and it's part of the PPA Dev Tools Manual. bye bestie, go build something iconic 💖✨

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