How to prepare a new .deb package?

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Closed gionn closed 12 years ago

gionn commented 12 years ago

Which steps are necessary to build from sources and generate a deb package? Seems to be missing from the actual README.

guillaumezin commented 12 years ago

Hello,

To create a package:

For instance for version 0.72:

sudo dkms mkdeb mktarball --source-only -m nvidiabl -v 0.72

Then the package should be available here: /var/lib/dkms/nvidiabl/0.72/tarball/nvidiabl-0.72-source-only.dkms.tar.gz

I will add that to the README file.

Guillaume