1 Building Samba Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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4 Building Debian packages is not as hard as some people might think. The
5 following instructions will allow you to build your own Samba Debian
6 packages. These instructions, and the files in packaging/Debian/, should
7 be current as of Samba 3.0beta3, and should allow you to build Debian
8 packages for Debian unstable.
10 We try to maintain as much compatibility with previous releases
11 of Debian as possible, so it is possible that the files in
12 packaging/Debian/ can also be used to build Samba Debian packages for
13 other Debian releases. However, sometimes this is just not possible
14 because we need to use stuff that is only available on Debian unstable.
19 If you want to build Samba packages for Debian and you just want to use
20 upstream sources, i.e. you don't want to wait for us to put official
21 packages out, or you want packages for a Debian version for which we
22 don't provide deb's, or you don't want to use official packages, or
23 you want to add --this-cool-switch to configure, or whatever, follow
26 0) Make sure you have the following packages installed (in addition
27 to the normal Debian development packages -- dpkg-dev, libc6-dev,
35 libacl1-dev | acl-dev (>= 2.0.0)
41 Notes regarding the packages required to build Samba Debian packages:
43 * The libcupsys2-dev is not available in Debian Potato (Debian 2.2).
44 That's fine; the configure script won't detect CUPS support and the
45 resulting binaries won't support CUPS.
47 * The list above is current as of samba-3.0.0beta3, but it can get
48 out of date. The best way to check what packages are required to
49 build the samba packages on Debian is to look for the Build-Depends:
50 field in the file debian/control.
52 1) cd samba[-<version>]. For example, "cd samba-3.0.0beta3".
53 2) cp -a packaging/Debian/debian/ debian
54 It's important that you copy instead of symlink because the build
55 tools in Potato have a problem that prevents the build to work with
57 3) dch -i (this is completely optional - only do it if you understand
58 Debian version numbers! Don't complain later if you can't upgrade
59 to official versions of the Samba packages for Debian.)
60 - Edit the changelog and make sure the version is right. For example,
61 for Samba 3.0.0beta3, the version number should something like
63 4) Run 'debian/rules binary'.
64 - It is better that you prefix the above command with 'fakeroot'.
65 If you have problems you might try building as root.
66 5) That's it. Your new packages should be in ../. Install with dpkg.
68 Please e-mail samba@packages.debian.org with comments, questions or
69 suggestions. Please talk to us and not to the Samba Team. They have
70 better things to do and know nothing about the Debian packaging system.
72 Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
73 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>