[03:33] <pabs3> how do I claim and delete this launchpad account? I already have the pabs account. https://launchpad.net/~pabs3
[03:36] <wgrant> pabs3: If you're logged in you should see a link to claim it
[03:36] <wgrant> Then you need to verify that you own the address
[03:36] <wgrant> If you don't have access to the address any more, ask at https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+addquestion and we'll sort it out.
[03:38] <pabs3> and to delete it?
[03:53] <StevenK> pabs3: Probably easier to claim it and merge it into your existing account
[03:54] <wgrant> Exactly
[03:54] <wgrant> Best way to delete it is to merge it
[03:54] <wgrant> Since it's the same person
[03:54] <wgrant> It'll switch the references across to your one true account
[03:59] <pabs3> ok cool. done, thanks
[05:20] <george_e> Is there an API route for obtaining a list of all PPAs?
[05:20] <george_e> I searched through the documentation and haven't come across anything yet.
[05:23] <wgrant> george_e: No. Why do you want to do that?
[05:24] <george_e> wgrant: Because the API provides a route for obtaining all of the packages in a PPA, I thought it would be neat to write a tool that enumerated all of the PPAs and obtained the package list for each of them.
[05:24] <george_e> Then I could dump all of the data into a database and write a nice web front-end for searching.
[05:24] <wgrant> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas
[05:24] <wgrant> You don't want to be scraping that volume of data from Launchpad
[05:24] <wgrant> It is large
[05:25] <george_e> Oh... how many PPAs do we have?
[05:25] <StevenK> Over 40,000
[05:25] <george_e> :O
[05:26] <george_e> Okay... never mind.
[05:26] <george_e> wgrant: But the link you provided doesn't work.
[05:26] <wgrant> And those are just the public ones.
[05:26] <george_e> OOPS-d721dc8e2fcabe296aad5190ea5a5295
[05:26] <StevenK> It times out
[05:26] <StevenK> That page is pretty terrible
[05:26] <george_e> StevenK: As far as I can remember, that page has always timed out.
[05:26] <wgrant> It should work after a refresh
[05:27] <george_e> Oh now it works! Thanks!
[05:29] <george_e> Now I've just noticed that this tool <https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/y-ppa-manager> claims to be able to search through the "PPA database".
[05:30] <george_e> Interesting...
[05:31] <wgrant> They might scrape the data directly from the archives on ppa.launchpad.net
[05:34] <george_e> The relevant code seems to be here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~webupd8team/y-ppa-manager/y-ppa-manager/view/head:/list_search_ppas#L230
[05:34] <wgrant> My eyes
[05:34] <StevenK> wget -q https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter="$SEARCH_PPA"
[05:34]  * StevenK reaches for a spoon
[05:35] <wgrant> I am reminded of Automatix.
[05:35] <george_e> Lol.
[05:36] <StevenK> wgrant: That word is forbidden.
[05:37] <george_e> Interesting discovery: <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=> matches 14,958 PPAs.
[05:38] <wgrant> Counts that large are an approximation.
[05:39] <george_e> Anyway, I get the impression my idea is dead in the water. Unless Launchpad did some sort of "data dump" of the database.
[08:06] <pabs3> is there any workaround for #238869 or should I just type "yes" and pray?
[13:35] <ahasenack> #123456
[19:39] <ahasenack> #123456
[23:31] <bjf> i've got a odd problem. a script which uses the launchpad api suddenly started crashing on a host. this script uses "login_anonymously" and doesn't specify a cache directory. to "fix" it i specified a cache directory. where is the "default" cache directory that would normally be used?
[23:47] <bjf> nevermind, found it