Building Samba Packages for Debian GNU/Linux -------------------------------------------- Building Debian packages is not as hard as some people might think. The following instructions will allow you to build your own Samba Debian packages. These instructions, and the files in packaging/Debian/, are current as of Samba 2.2.5, and should allow you to build Debian packages for Debian Potato (2.2), Debian Woody (3.0), and Debian unstable as of the date Samba 2.2.5 was released. Instructions ------------ If you want to build Samba packages for Debian and you just want to use upstream sources, i.e. you don't want to wait for us to put official packages out, or you want packages for a Debian version for which we don't provide deb's, or you don't want to use official packages, or you want to add --this-cool-switch to configure, or whatever, follow these instructions: 0) Make sure you have the following packages installed (in addition to the normal Debian development packages -- dpkg-dev, libc6-dev, devscripts, etc.): debhelper libpam0g-dev libreadline4-dev libcupsys2-dev autoconf Notes about the packages required to build Samba Debian packages: * The libcupsys2-dev is not available in Debian Potato (Debian 2.2). That's fine; the configure script won't detect CUPS support and the resulting binaries won't support CUPS. 1) cd samba[-]. For example, "cd samba-2.2.5". 2) cp -a packaging/Debian/debian/ debian It's important that you copy instead of symlink because the build tools in Potato have a problem that prevents the build to work with a symlink. 3) dch -i (this is completely optional - only do it if you understand Debian version numbers! Don't complain later if you can't upgrade to official versions of the Samba packages for Debian.) - Edit the changelog and make sure the version is right. For example, for Samba 2.2.4, the version number should something like 2.2.4-0.1 (use a number less than 1 like 0.1, 0.2, etc. so there is no conflict with future upgrades to the official Debian packages.) 4) Run 'debian/rules binary'. - It is better that you prefix the above command with 'fakeroot'. If you have problems you might try building as root. 5) That's it. Your new packages should be in ../. Install with dpkg. Please e-mail samba@packages.debian.org with comments, questions or suggestions. Please talk to us and not to the Samba Team. They have better things to do and know nothing about the Debian packaging system. Eloy A. Paris Steve Langasek