On 04/07/2016 09:04 AM, Nux! wrote:
Well, by the looks of it, it bundles all the deps in one archive, so you no
longer depend on system ones, but also you miss out on system updates.
I use a commercial professional multitrack audio mixing package called
Mixbus (derived from Ardour, but with specialized DSP for the summing
and for plugins; the portion derived from Ardour is open source, the DSP
plugin code is closed source, and thanks to the plugin API is not a
'derived work' since it would be usable from any plugin host.....).
This is the way Mixbus is bundled, with all deps prebuilt and stashed
away in the proper /opt tree.
Now, as to 'updates' specifically, yes, this puts it on the developer of
the package to make sure updates that are necessary are actually
applied. OpenSSL, for instance; although, I wouldn't think Openshot
would use that one (Mixbus doesn't; in fact I'm not sure how it could be
remotely exploited at all). So for certain things the 'bundled app'
makes sense; for a server process it would not.
Mixbus works very well on CentOS 7; I use it every week for longform
broadcast production and mixdown, and just running the Harrison Consoles
installer script 'Just Worked' as it was supposed to (if it doesn't the
Mixbus devs get a message from me.....).
Further, the official Ardour.org Ardour packages for Linux are similar
bundles; at one time if you built it from source using the system
libraries you were not guaranteed support or that it would even work.
You run the installer script, and it just works on pretty much any
modern Linux. All files, libraries, etc for all dependencies are loaded
into the appropriate /opt tree (example:
[lowen@localhost ~]$ ls -d /opt/M*
/opt/Mixbus-2.5_14392 /opt/Mixbus-3.1.66.uninstall.sh
/opt/Mixbus-2.5_14392.uninstall.sh /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22
/opt/Mixbus-3.1.66 /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22.uninstall.sh
[lowen@localhost ~]$ du -h --max-depth=1 /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22
104M /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22/bin
212K /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22/etc
132M /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22/lib
17M /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22/share
252M /opt/Mixbus-3.2.22
[lowen@localhost ~]$
Note that multiple versions at a time are fully supported, and the
uninstaller is ready (and able) to run at any time. In fact, the
installation script asks you one by one if you want to uninstall any of
the prior versions. As you can see, I currently have three versions
installed side-by-side. The installer script is in the open source
portion of the program, available through the Ardour git.
It does take more disk space to do this.
And while I have always been a big fan of RPM and of always using the
repos for things, I have to say that there are many things RPM packages
do not do well for the most part.
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