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<h1>Other</h1>
You may want to <a href=repositoryCdHowto.html>create a repository CD</a>,
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<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type">
<title>Campcaster repository CD creation process documentation</title>
<meta content="$Author$" name="author">
</head>
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<h1>Preface</h1>
This document is part of the <a href="http://campcaster.campware.org/">Campcaster</a>
project, Copyright © 2004 <a href="http://www.mdlf.org/">Media
Development Loan Fund</a>, under the GNU <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>.<br>
<ul>
<li>Author: $Author$</li>
<li>Version: $Revision$</li>
<li>Location: $URL$</li>
</ul>
<h1>Scope</h1>
This document describes the process of creating a repository CD containing
the Campcaster deb packages.
<h1>Introduction</h1>
A repository CD is a CD which contains the Campcaster deb packages, plus
all the other deb packages which Campcaster depends on. Such a CD can be
used to install Campcaster on computers with limited or no internet
connectivity.
The repository CD creation process consists of the following steps:<br>
<ul>
<li>collect the necessary deb packages</li>
<li>create the package listing</li>
<li>create the iso image</li>
<li>test the iso image</li>
</ul>
<h1>Collect the necessary deb packages</h1>
Start with a fresh Ubuntu system installed from the install CD, with no additional packages. Add the universe repository and the campware.org
repository
<pre>deb http://code.campware.org/ubuntu dapper main</pre>
to <code>/etc/apt/sources.list</code>.
Type
<pre>sudo apt-get clean</pre>
to clean the package cache, and install Campcaster normally. Install any
other deb packages you want to be on the repository CD. Now copy the
packages into your home directory:
<pre>cd
mkdir repository
cd repository
mkdir dist
cp /var/cache/apt/archive/*.deb dist/</pre>
<h1>Create the package listing</h1>
Type
<pre>cd ~/repository
apt-ftparchive packages dist > Packages
gzip --best Packages</pre>
this will create a <code>Packages.gz</code> file containing the list of
packages.
<h1>Create the iso image</h1>
Type
<pre>cd ~/repository
mkisofs -J -r -pad -v -V "Campcaster repository CD" \
-o ../Campcaster-repository.iso .</pre>
Note the space and dot at the end of the command. The volume label
(<code>-V</code>) can be up to 32 characters long.
<p>
It's OK to add more files to the CD; <code>apt-cdrom</code> (or, equivalently,
Synaptic's "Add CD-ROM" button) is smart enough to find the repository among
all the other stuff.
<h1>Test the iso image</h1>
Burn the iso file to a CD:
<pre>cdrecord -scanbus
cdrecord -v dev=ATA:1,0,0 ~/Campcaster-repository.iso</pre>
(change <code>1,0,0</code> to whatever scanbus told you, of course). Then try adding
the CD as a repository with
<pre>apt-cdrom add</pre>
<p>
You can also use Nautilus and Synaptic instead of mkisofs, cdrecord
and apt-cdrom.
<p>
TODO: it's probably possible to mount and check the iso without burning it
to a CD first.
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