I want to try nvidia feature „Initial support of G-Sync compatible monitors“. It was introduced in 418.30 BETA driver. I am using GNU/Debian testing/unstable distribution and there is 390.87 and 410.93 only now. In experimental, there is 415.27. I found that it is possible to create newer package from git, but there is missing workflow in debian wiki. I suppose that primary git repo is maintained by anbe.

• instalace chybějících balíčků

apt-get install libdistro-info-perl git-buildpackage git-lfs quilt

• stažení zdrojových kódů

git clone https://salsa.debian.org/anbe/nvidia-graphics-drivers-preview2.git

• přepnutí do požadované branch

cd nvidia-graphics-drivers-preview2/
git branch -a
git checkout 418-preview

• Zjištění dostupných verzí

$ uscan --report
uscan: Newest version of nvidia-graphics-drivers on remote site is 418.43, local version is 418.30
uscan:    => Newer package available from
      https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/418.43/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43.run

• Aktualizace chnagelogu

debchange --distribution UNRELEASED --newversion 418.43-1

• Stažení tarballu ze stránek nvidia

debian/rules get-orig-source

• Nahrání tarbalu na správné místo

mkdir -p ../tarballs-nvidia-graphics-drivers/418.43
cp *.orig*.tar.gz  ../tarballs-nvidia-graphics-drivers/418.43/

gbp buildpackage --git-debian-branch=418-preview --git-arch=i386 --git-ignore-new

• README v git
  • https://salsa.debian.org/anbe/nvidia-graphics-drivers-preview2/blob/master/debian/README.source
• Debian wiki
  • https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_GIT