Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
---
INSTALL.Debian.md | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/INSTALL.Debian.md b/INSTALL.Debian.md
index b3acc1e..84c42c0 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Debian.md
+++ b/INSTALL.Debian.md
@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ You do not need to be the superuser to build the Debian
packages.
`DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='parallel=8 nocheck' fakeroot debian/rules binary`
+ (There are a few pitfalls in the Debian packaging building system
+ so that, occasionally, you may find that in a tree that you have
+ using for a while, the build command above exits immediately
+ without actually building anything. To fix the problem, run
+
+ `fakeroot debian/rules clean`
+
+ or start over from a fresh copy of the source tree.)
+
5. The generated .deb files will be in the parent directory of the
Open vSwitch source distribution.
--
2.1.3
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