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Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir

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On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@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

> 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.

thanks
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog

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Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> - 2016-09-17 10:40 +0200
  Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 07:40 +0200
    Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> - 2016-09-20 13:50 +0200
      Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-20 17:20 +0200
      Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 06:10 +0200
        Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> - 2016-09-21 11:30 +0200
          Re: Problem with dpkg-source -b outside current working dir kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 04:50 +0200

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