Campcaster Debian Packaging

Robin Gareus

linuxaudio.org
Université Paris

• Requirements
• Paths, Locations & persistent storage
• Code & Libraries
• Licensing Issues
• Patches made for the package
• proposed future changes

• Basics
  • install & setup
  • remove & keep data & config
  • purge → remove all
• Debianized Paths
• Clean Licenses, as little as possible extra libs
• maintainable build/patch-system (quilt, git)

Original campcaster is setup to work from /opt and the source-tree.

• Campcaster's configure & Makefile do not support DESTDIR.
• prefix is used to replace paths rather than install-target.

Debian requires installation in /usr

• /usr/lib/campcaster - binary arch depenent files
• /usr/share/camcaster - arch indep. files (PHP, templates)
• /var/[lib]/campcaster - data storage and variable files
• /etc/ - configuration, init-scripts, etc

Debian does not (usually) allow external libs to be part of a package.

• libodbc++
• xmlrpc++
• taglib
• PEAR (security concerns)
• libserial (avail upstream)
• embedded Smarty

Campcaster mixes serveral licenses:

• PHP licenses (v2.0, v2.02 & v3.0)
• GPL v2/v3
• SSL - incompatible with GPL.
• test-sounds (was creative-commons)

Main Target: Ubuntu/Lucid

• campcaster-libs - customized libs
• campcaster-data - arch-indep files (PHP, images,..)
• campcaster-station - executables, server-config
• campcaster-studio - GUI binaries

• add debian/ - various scripts & man-pages
• use apache Alias instead of symlink in /var/www
• Change (hardcoded) paths in shell and install scripts
• Add icon in xpm format
• Change pgsql setup scripts for debian postgres 8.3/8.4
• minor cosmetic changes

Some patches can (and already have been) merged upstream.

Major Upstream ToDo Points:

• remove PEAR and rely on available PEAR packages
• replace xmlrpc++
• option to use system-wide libs instead of provided ones

Nice to have:

• flexible install-prefix and install-destination
• replace SSL with GNU-TLS (xmlrpc++, curl)

Packaging ToDo:

• drop campcaster's postInstallStation.sh script.

it does not conform to debian db/odbc standards

• remove NFS auto-detection & provide README to set-up remote storage

Thanks for your attention.

Packages are currently available for download from

http://rg42.org/deb/
http://robin.linuxaudio.org/deb/

repositories will follow.