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Enable adding Ubuntu toolchain PPA by default - #555

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The default in Boost.CI will be false but some jobs still rely on this, so keep it for now the default.

The default in Boost.CI will be false but some jobs still rely on this, so keep it for now the default.
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I have no idea what this does, can you give me the cliff notes?

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Flamefire commented May 5, 2026 •

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This was a recent Slack discussion: Basically:
Boost.CI adds the ubuntu-toolchain-r/test PPA by default.
This allows installing older or newer compilers than available on the base Ubuntu image

However this is bad for 2 reasons:

  • System packages are preferred, so mostly another OS image should be used
  • The PPA download takes time and may fail even when it isn't actually used.

The best way is to copy the updated one from https://github.com/boostorg/boost-ci

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@klemens-morgenstern I synced the branch to trigger CI again. Would be great if you could merge this or change CI anyway

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klemens-morgenstern merged commit 5dc452a into boostorg:develop Oct 24, 2026
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Flamefire deleted the add-toolchain-ppa branch October 24, 2026 15:17
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