Debian installation command line error

[byronyi]

I am using Debian 9 (new stable release since 17th June, 2017). According to the Installation part of README.md:

$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package nvidia-peer-memory
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0-4
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Feras Daoud <ferasda@mellanox.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build nv_peer_memory
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --with dkms
dh: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 8 in use)
   dh_testdir
   dh_clean
dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 8 in use)
 dpkg-source -b nv_peer_memory
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../nvidia-peer-memory_1.0.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b nv_peer_memory gave error exit status 255

A work around: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc needs to be changed into dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b.

[ferasd]

• @alaahl

[alaahl]

Hi @byronyi , did you prepare a tarball (named nvidia-peer-memory_1.0.orig.tar.gz ) first ? it seems like the tarball is missing: " dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../nvidia-peer-memory_1.0.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz} "

[byronyi]

@alaahl Thanks for the reply. I just found out I download through curl <link> | tar xz or clone the directory using git. Seems it works only with both tar-ball and source present.