Bug#807579: [CUDA 7.5] patch version 7, driver is a potential blocker

[lumin]

On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 15:32 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> I wanted to ask about the status of the packaging of cuda toolkit 7.5. Do I
> understand correctly that the patch set in message #89 [1] is the latest status
> and that that packaging should already rudimentary work on amd64?
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807579#89

Here is CUDA 7.5 status update w.r.t the version 7 patch (from #89)

* [amd64]
  + passed build, even if ppc64el stuff are added into rules
  + list-missing was already checked
  + no lintian error

* [ppc64el]
  + build failed at dh_shlibdeps, due to the missing libcuda.so.1,
    which will be provided in anbe's nvidia-driver upload for ppc64el.
  + list-missing is not checked yet.
   
* Common:
  - EULA is not merged yet.
  - debian/rules is somewhat dirty.

> The background is, that our group is trying to replicate results by a research
> group from Warsaw and unfortunately they rely on CUDA 7.5. Since we need to
> replicate their findings until March, I'd be nice if there already existed
> sufficiently working patches to install 7.5 as a .deb instead of potentially
> messing up my system with the nvidia installer.

It's fine if you just need the generated packages. i.e. the
version 7 patch could work for you.

The patch is based on the official upload of cuda 7.0.28-1,
and in order to build it locally you can just hack this file
into *.orig.tar.gz

  cuda-linux64-rel-7.5.18-19867135.run

which is contained in the .run ball of cuda 7.5.
My local amd64 build seems to be fine.

Please remember, if you're going to redistribute your
locally built cuda 7.5 packages, please make sure
debian/copyright is checked and updated ...   :-)