Show HN: PkgHub.io - Simple Ubuntu Package Hosting

Post by lloydpick » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 2:55 PM UTC

film42 wrote: post #10

One killer feature would be to have a direct download link to each package. Installing outside the package manager isn't something you should do, but I've had to a few times (making netcat happy, etc).

Post by Daviey » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:34 PM UTC

tlongren wrote: post #6

This could be waaay better than Launchpad. And much nicer looking, too.

Post by tlongren » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 3:38 PM UTC

Daviey wrote: post #13

tlongren wrote: post #6

This could be waaay better than Launchpad. And much nicer looking, too.

How? The site has promised nothing new that I can see.. Launchpad already offers what is currently being promised. In addition, the launchpad build infra is well designed and provides an assured build that is using the same architecutrure as builds for Ubuntu's primary archive (including gpg and network isolated build hosts) Launchpad also has a receipe based build process, that (I haven't tried) could surely tie int…

Post by mh- » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

hleszek wrote: post #16

simonuid wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

another typo: "that provides you with an easy to way host and manage" -> "that provides you with an easy way to host and manage"

had to read it 3 times to notice the difference...

Post by tlongren » Mon, Oct 21, 2013, 4:23 PM UTC

mh- wrote: post #18

tlongren wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was mostly referring to the much nicer user interface.

I think we can assume that the developers/fans of launchpad don't care about UI/UX. :)