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@@ -3,9 +3,14 @@ Building Samba Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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 3.0beta3, and should allow you to build Debian
-packages for Debian unstable.
+packages. These instructions, and the files in packaging/Debian/, are
+current as of Samba 3.0.0rc2, 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 3.0.0rc2
+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
@@ -32,11 +37,11 @@ devscripts, etc.):
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:
@@ -44,12 +49,12 @@ devscripts, etc.):
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-3.0.0beta3, 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out of date.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-3.0.0beta3".
+1) cd samba[-<version>]. For example, "cd samba-3.0.0rc2".
2) cp -a packaging/Debian/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