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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] Correct way to build debian/ubuntu packages including openvswitch-pki?
From:       rlantz () cs ! stanford ! edu (Bob Lantz)
Date:       2012-02-10 1:15:49
Message-ID: AA05BA1B-EBA7-489E-A0B4-48B5AF6D9AD5 () cs ! stanford ! edu
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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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