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Importing a New Upstream Release
The *.orig.tar.gz file for nvidia-graphics-drivers contains just a
directory named nvidia-graphics-drivers-<version> containing the
upstream .run files for amd64, i386, and maybe armhf.
Everything else comes from the Subversion repository for the package.
Use the following steps to update to a new upstream release:
* Check for a new version
uscan --report
* Create a changelog entry for the new version
debchange --distribution UNRELEASED --newversion <version>-1
* Download the driver archives and create a new .orig.tar.gz
debian/rules get-orig-source
Alternatively do it manually:
- Download the .run files for i386 and amd64 from upstream.
- mkdir nvidia-graphics-drivers-<version>.orig and place package files
in that directory. Make them executable. Then, create the orig
tarball with:
tar czvf nvidia-graphics-drivers_<version>.orig.tar.gz
* For generating tarballs of older versions first set WATCH_VERSION in
debian/rules.defs appropriately and regenerate debian/watch.
* Edit debian/module/conftest.h if necessary for kernel compatibility
and test.
* Add the new *.orig.tar.gz to the tarballs directory in the svn
repository: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-nvidia/tarballs
Building and Uploading
The easiest way to do this is to pick the architecture on which one
can easily build and test (either i386 or amd64) and ensure the
package is working there. Then, do a final package build for upload.
Note that you don't need an
NVIDIA card on the system where you're doing the build, but of course
ideally you want to test on all architectures before upload. Most
problems (at least of the kind that can be fixed in Debian) come from
building the kernel modules, which you can do without having an NVIDIA
card.
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Tue, 6 Apr 2010 23:36:07 -0700
Using the nks-history.git repository for upstreams changelog and the non-blob
parts of the kernel module
This repository is intended to simplify extracting upstream changelog
updates and reimplementing the conftest.sh script as conftest.h.
To setup an initial clone of this repository run these two commands in
an empty directory:
git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-nvidia/nks-history.git history
git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-nvidia/nks-history.git --reference history -b scripts scripts
To importing the changelog and module source of a new release follow
these instructions:
* Change to the scripts directory.
* Edit 'versions'.
* Run ./00import-history
* Look at the imported history (in the ../history repository) e.g. using
gitk. If something was wrong or a parent was missing, edit 'versions'
and run ./00import-history again. Repeat until you are happy.
* Commit 'versions' and push both repositories (scripts and history).
* Update debian/changelog and conftest.h with data from nks-history.
-- Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:49:10 +0100
Importing a new upstream release that moved support for some legacy cards
to a new legacy driver
* Import the new upstream (as usual) into a new branch, first targeting
experimental.
* Build a list of no longer supported PCI IDs:
comm -23 ../../trunk/debian/nv-readme.ids debian/nv-readme.ids > unsupported.ids
* Replace the PCI ID list in debian/libgl1-nvidia-glx.preinst.
* Build lists of the no longer supported GPU model and chipset names:
debian/rules unsupported.names
sort -k2 unsupported.names > unsupported.names.sorted
sed 's/.*\[/[/' unsupported.names | sort -u > chips-eol.txt
* Create an nvidia-driver.NEWS entry about the legacy models.
* Update debian/control.models to the still supported ones.
-- Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:11:22 +0200
Forking a new legacy package
In order to create a new legacy package (e.g. for legacy version 42)
from this source package, the following changes need to be done:
* in debian/rules.defs set NVIDIA_LEGACY = 42
* in
- debian/changelog
- debian/control (Source: and Package: lines)
change the package name by inserting '-legacy-42xx' into the package
name after
- nvidia-glx
- libgl1-nvidia
- nvidia-kernel
- nvidia-graphics-drivers
* remove all packages that should no longer be built from debian/control
-- Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:10:09 +0200
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