Am 20.09.2016 um 07:33 schrieb kamaraju kusumanchi: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Malte Forkel <malte.for...@berlin.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> according to the man page, dpkg-source -b takes an argument that is "the >> name of the directory containing the debianized source tree". But that >> does not work for me if the directory is not the current working directory. >> >> When is execute dpkg-source in the package's source directory, i.e. >> SRCDIR$ dpkg-source -b . >> everything works fine. But if I execute dpkg-source from a different >> directory with the absolute path as its argument >> /tmp$ dpkg-source -b $SRCDIR >> it complains that can't find the original tarball at >> ../pkg_vers.orig.tar.*. Shouldn't it look into $SRCDIR/..? >> > > Is the $SRCDIR variable set to anything? What is the output of > > echo $SRCDIR > Sorry for the confusion. I just used SRCDIR as a placeholder for the real directory name in my example. And I should have written SRCDIR (instead of $SRCDIR) in the second part to make that clear.
>> Im using dpkg-source from dpkg-dev 1.18.4ubuntu1.1 in Ubuntu 16.04. > > As explained in the FAQ > (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.2), > Ubuntu is based on Debian but not Debian. If you are running Ubutnu, > it is better to ask on Ubuntu list than here. > True. But I don't think there should be a difference in the implementation of dpkg-source
