Building Samba Packages for Debian GNU/Linux -------------------------------------------- If you want to build Samba packages for Debian and you just want to use upstream sources, i.e. you don't want to wait for us to put official packages out, or you want packages for a Debian version for which we don't provide deb's, or you don't want to use official packages, or you want to add --this-cool-switch to configure, or whatever, follow these instructions: 0) Make sure you have the following packages installed: debhelper libpam0g-dev libreadline4-dev libcupsys2-dev + the minimum Debian development stuff (dpkg-dev, libc6-dev, etc.) Note: libcupsys2-dev is not available for Potato. It's safe to not install it if you don't need CUPS support. 1) cd samba[-<version>] 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 a symlink. 3) dch -i - Edit the changelog and make sure the version is right. For example, for Samba 2.2.3, the version number should be 2.2.3-0.1 (use a number less than 1 like 0.1, 0.2, etc. so there is no conflict with future upgrades to the official Debian packages.) 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. 5) That's it. Your new packages should be in ../. Install with dpkg. Please e-mail samba@packages.debian.org with comments, question or usggestions. Please talk to us and not to the Samba Team. They have better things to do and know nothing about the Debian packaging system. Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Sat Feb 2 00:44:42 CET 2002