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/, are
7 current as of Samba 2.2.5, and should allow you to build Debian packages
8 for Debian Potato (2.2), Debian Woody (3.0), and Debian unstable as of
9 the date Samba 2.2.5 was released.
14 If you want to build Samba packages for Debian and you just want to use
15 upstream sources, i.e. you don't want to wait for us to put official
16 packages out, or you want packages for a Debian version for which we
17 don't provide deb's, or you don't want to use official packages, or
18 you want to add --this-cool-switch to configure, or whatever, follow
21 0) Make sure you have the following packages installed (in addition
22 to the normal Debian development packages -- dpkg-dev, libc6-dev,
31 Notes about the packages required to build Samba Debian packages:
33 * The libcupsys2-dev is not available in Debian Potato (Debian 2.2).
34 That's fine; the configure script won't detect CUPS support and the
35 resulting binaries won't support CUPS.
37 1) cd samba[-<version>]. For example, "cd samba-2.2.5".
38 2) cp -a packaging/Debian/debian/ debian
39 It's important that you copy instead of symlink because the build
40 tools in Potato have a problem that prevents the build to work with
42 3) dch -i (this is completely optional - only do it if you understand
43 Debian version numbers! Don't complain later if you can't upgrade
44 to official versions of the Samba packages for Debian.)
45 - Edit the changelog and make sure the version is right. For example,
46 for Samba 2.2.4, the version number should something like 2.2.4-0.1
47 (use a number less than 1 like 0.1, 0.2, etc. so there is no conflict
48 with future upgrades to the official Debian packages.)
49 4) Run 'debian/rules binary'.
50 - It is better that you prefix the above command with 'fakeroot'.
51 If you have problems you might try building as root.
52 5) That's it. Your new packages should be in ../. Install with dpkg.
54 Please e-mail samba@packages.debian.org with comments, questions or
55 suggestions. Please talk to us and not to the Samba Team. They have
56 better things to do and know nothing about the Debian packaging system.
58 Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
59 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
61 $Id: README.build-upstream,v 1.2 2003/06/01 07:12:51 peloy Exp $