On Oct 3, 2018, at 11:24, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In another thread I had mentioned that I was disappointed to see the
> appliance CD/DVD development abandoned. I do understand their were technical
> reasons to do so, but it was a WONDERFUL way to easily install and get to
> know Rivendell from an operational standpoint.
I don’t disagree! Unfortunately, the “innovators” at M$ effectively made that
approach impossible when they decided to ram UEFI down the industry’s throat.
> I know this has been covered in the past, but is there any progress on the
> possibility of a RPM package, complete with all dependencies needed for
> Rivendell?
Such have been available for well over a decade - it’s the foundation of the
entire ‘script-based install’ system. The RPMs live in the Paravel-Broadcast
repository, at:
http://download.paravelsystems.com/CentOS/7/
<http://download.paravelsystems.com/CentOS/7/>
In theory, there is no reason that one could not take an otherwise fully
configured RHEL7 system, subscribe it to that repo, and then install Rivendell
by doing:
yum install rivendell
That in fact is the exact command that the online installation script uses to
install the software.
I say ‘in theory’ because there is much more to getting a working Rivendell
setup than just installing the software RPMs. For example, the DB backend
(MySQL/MariaDB) must also be provisioned and the Rivendell DB initialized. Most
users are going to want things like Windows shares so production editors can
connect and upload audio. How about creating and permissioning the audio store
correctly? Etc, etc. It is precisely to handle these myriad subsidiary details
that the installation script exists.
Cheers!
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