The rpms should be built not directly from the spec file (although it is possible) but more conveniently using the makerpms.sh script: It takes care of making a source tarball and building the rpms for x86_64 and i386, the latter also producing the winbind-32bit compatibility packages for x86_64. The makerpms.sh script must be invoked from out of a git checkout (since git archive is used to produce the tarball for rpmbuild). To eliminate the need of building the docs from the sources (which is time consuming and has vast build dependencies), you need a samba release docs tarball called docs.tar.bz2 and point the DOCS_TARBALL environment variable to it before calling makerpms.sh. Alternatively, if the DOCS_TARBALL variable is not set, but if a docs.tar.bz2 exists inside the rpm SOURCES directory (/usr/src/redhat/SORUCES/ by default), that will be used. To produce an appropriate docs tarball, you can for instance pack the docs dir from a samba release tarball using the command "tar cjf docs.tar.bz2 docs". Note: The docs tarball needs the docs/ prefix.