<chapter id="Packaging"> <chapterinfo> <author> <firstname>Jelmer</firstname><surname>Vernooij</surname> </author> </chapterinfo> <title>Notes to packagers</title> <sect1> <title>Versioning</title> <para>Please, please update the version number in <filename>source/include/version.h</filename> to include the versioning of your package. This makes it easier to distinguish standard samba builds from custom-build samba builds (distributions often patch packages). For example, a good version would be: </para> <para><programlisting> Version 2.999+3.0.alpha21-5 for Debian </programlisting></para> </sect1> <sect1> <title>Modules</title> <para>Samba now has support for building parts of samba as plugins. This makes it possible to, for example, put ldap or mysql support in a seperate package, thus making it possible to have a normal samba package not depending on ldap or mysql. To build as much parts of samba as a plugin, run: </para> <para><programlisting> ./configure --with-shared-modules=rpc,vfs,auth,pdb,charset </programlisting></para> </sect1> </chapter>