Jelmer Vernooij

# Notes to packagers

## Versioning

Please, please set the vendor version suffix and number in `source/VERSION` and call `source/script/mkvesion.sh` to include the versioning of your package. There is also the possibility to set a function to create the vendor version. 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:

    Version 2.999+3.0.alpha21-5 for Debian

## Modules

Samba has support for building parts of samba as plugins. This makes it possible to, for example, put ldap or mysql support in a separate 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:

The option `--with-shared-modules` is maintained to support specific modules such as idmap_XXX and vfs_XXX. For example, `--with-shared-modules=idmap_ad`. Use of this parameter to the `configure` command as not been supported in official releases.

    ./configure --with-shared-modules=rpc,vfs,auth,pdb,charset