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[robb01]

Wanting to spin-down my external USB HDD on my Pine64 with PMS I found these commands for installing hd-idle from http://hd-idle.sourceforge.net/ :

• cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@hd-idle.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/hd-idle login
  • Just hit Return when it asks for a password
    
• cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@hd-idle.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/hd-idle co -P hd-idle
  

(after first doing apt-get install cvs) and

• Run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot"
  
• Run "dpkg -i ../hd-idle_*.deb" to install the package
  

but my Debian OS does not include dpkg-buildpackage in the repository.

Anyone know if other dpkg tools can do this? Other options?

Replying to myself the answer is to first:

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot debhelper -y

and then the

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
runs fine.

However also found that hdparm does in fact work on a USB external HDD on the Pine whereas a number of people have (more generally) reported that hdparm does not work for USB externals so hd-idle may not be necessary.  Another win for Pine64.