# make deb issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 14, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664 "2014-07-14T14:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogene\_Laerce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Diogene\_Laerce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Diogene_Laerce)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/1 "2014-07-14T14:18:31Z")
Hi, I try to make a deb package from the sources and when it works fine with the git repository (dev version), yet it doesn't with the latest version 1.6.6. I ran a diff here : [http://pastebin.com/c9WKEkVB](http://pastebin.com/c9WKEkVB) But I couldn't find why. Anyone ? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/2 "2014-07-14T14:21:14Z")
Can you paste the errors you get when making deb? ---
**Author:** ![Diogene\_Laerce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Diogene\_Laerce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Diogene_Laerce)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/3 "2014-07-14T14:25:53Z")
It seems that the archive name is not defined : [hard-linking process] ... copying setup.cfg -\> ansible-1.6.6 Writing ansible-1.6.6/setup.cfg creating dist Creating tar archive removing 'ansible-1.6.6' (and everything under it) tar: dist/ansible-.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now cp: cannot stat `packaging/debian': No such file or directory sed: can't read deb-build/unstable/ansible-/debian/changelog: No such file or directory make: \*\*\* [debian] Error 2 ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/4 "2014-07-14T14:34:38Z")
Can’t reproduce that. Could you try cleaning up some dirs manually, then retrying: debian/ deb-dist/ build/ or starting from a clean checkout Serge ---
**Author:** ![Diogene\_Laerce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Diogene\_Laerce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Diogene_Laerce)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/5 "2014-07-14T15:06:20Z")
Actually it was (and just did again) a clean checkout : 1 - download archive 2 - untar 3 - cd to dir 4 - make deb 5 - same error I maybe do something wrong but I don't know what, if I. And there's no problem at all with the dev repo version. I did find some other errors at the beginning of the process : ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/6 "2014-07-14T16:19:45Z")
I suspect the make deb was only tested from a git checkout. Sounds like a bug. ---
**Author:** ![Diogene\_Laerce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Diogene\_Laerce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Diogene_Laerce)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/7 "2014-07-14T16:28:58Z")
Do you have a protocol somewhere that I can read to submit ? That's my first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/8 "2014-07-14T16:55:25Z")
​[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CONTRIBUTING.md​](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/CONTRIBUTING.md%E2%80%8B) ---
**Author:** ![Diogene\_Laerce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Diogene\_Laerce](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Diogene_Laerce)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/make-deb-issue/15664/9 "2014-07-14T16:59:51Z")
Thanks.