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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