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   1 <chapter id="Packaging">
   2 <chapterinfo>
   3         &author.jelmer;
   4 </chapterinfo>
   5
   6 <title>Notes to packagers</title>
   7
   8 <sect1>
   9 <title>Versioning</title>
  10
  11 <para>Please, please update the version number in
  12 <filename>source/include/version.h</filename> to include the versioning of your package. This makes it easier to distinguish standard samba builds
  13 from custom-build samba builds (distributions often patch packages). For
  14 example, a good version would be: </para>
  15
  16 <para><programlisting>
  17 Version 2.999+3.0.alpha21-5 for Debian
  18 </programlisting></para>
  19
  20 </sect1>
  21
  22 <sect1>
  23 <title>Modules</title>
  24
  25 <para>Samba now has support for building parts of samba as plugins. This
  26 makes it possible to, for example, put ldap or mysql support in a seperate
  27 package, thus making it possible to have a normal samba package not
  28 depending on ldap or mysql. To build as much parts of samba
  29 as a plugin, run: </para>
  30
  31 <para><programlisting>
  32 ./configure --with-shared-modules=rpc,vfs,auth,pdb,charset
  33 </programlisting></para>
  34
  35 </sect1>
  36
  37
  38 </chapter>