Building Samba Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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-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/, should
-be current as of Samba 3.0beta1, and should allow you to build Debian
-packages for Debian unstable.
+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/
+should be current as of Samba 3.0.2, and allow you to build Debian
+packages for Debian unstable (so you need some development packages
+available only in Debian unstable.) If you are using something newer
+than 3.0.2 you might want to try to follow the instructions to see if
+patches apply cleanly. If some patches don't apply cleanly please e-mail
+samba@packages.debian.org since we might have fixed patches that we have
+not yet integrated into upstream Samba.
We try to maintain as much compatibility with previous releases
of Debian as possible, so it is possible that the files in
devscripts, etc.):
autoconf
- debhelper
+ debhelper (>= 4.1.13)
libpam0g-dev
libreadline4-dev
libcupsys2-dev
- libacl1-dev | acl-dev (>= 2.0.0)
+ libacl1-dev, libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1)
libkrb5-dev
libldap2-dev
po-debconf
- python-dev (>= 2.2)
+ python2.3-dev
Notes regarding the packages required to build Samba Debian packages:
That's fine; the configure script won't detect CUPS support and the
resulting binaries won't support CUPS.
- * The list above is current as of samba-3.0.0beta1, but it can get
+ * The list above is current as of samba-3.0.0rc2, but it can get
out of date. The best way to check what packages are required to
build the samba packages on Debian is to look for the Build-Depends:
field in the file debian/control.
-1) cd samba[-<version>]. For example, "cd samba-3.0.0beta1".
-2) cp -a packaging/Debian/debian/ debian
+1) cd samba[-<version>]. For example, "cd samba-3.0.2".
+2) cp -a packaging/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.
+ a symlink. If you are running a recent Debian distribution you don't
+ have to copy the directory and you can use a symlink instead:
+ "ln -s packaging/Debian/debian/ ."
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 3.0.0beta1, the version number should something like
- 3.0.0beta1-1.1.
-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.
+ for Samba 3.0.2, the version number should something like 3.0.2-0.1.
+4) Run 'fakeroot debian/rules binary'.
5) That's it. Your new packages should be in ../. Install with dpkg.
Please e-mail samba@packages.debian.org with comments, questions or
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