Thanks Ben - for some reason I had switched to binary-arch (no doubt after
fatiguing my brain by reading reams of Debian build arcana) but clearly binary
is the right target.
On Feb 9, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:58:40PM -0800, Bob Lantz wrote:
>> I am trying to build the debian packages for OVS 1.4.0 on Ubuntu
>> 11.10 (and other releases which don't necessarily have a pre-built
>> openvswitch package available.)
>>
>> If I use
>>
>> fakeroot make -f debian/rules binary-arch
>>
>> it builds
>> openvswitch-{brcompat,common,controller,dbg,ipsec,switch}_1.4.0-1_amd64.deb
>>
>> Unfortunately, openvswitch-controller requires the openvswitch-pki package,
>> which mysteriously has not been built.
>
> The "-arch" suffix means "build architecture-specific packages".
> openvswitch-pki is architecture independent (it is a shell script) so
> you build it with "binary-indep". Or, more commonly, just build
> "binary", which depends on binary-arch and binary-indep.
>
> (This behavior is not OVS-specific.)
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