INSTALL.Debian.md: Describe a pitfall and some solutions.
authorBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:13:13 +0000 (16:13 -0700)
committerBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Tue, 7 Jun 2016 23:12:39 +0000 (16:12 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
INSTALL.Debian.md

index b3acc1e..84c42c0 100644 (file)
@@ -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.