Hi Fred and all
Le 24/11/2020 à 15:15, Fred Gleason a écrit :
On Nov 23, 2020, at 20:30, Fernando Della Torre <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I know it's easy to say and hard to do, but surely Rivendell would
have a larger visibility if it were packed in 2 or more flavors, like
RPM and DEB pointing to all dependencies it needs and ready for the
modern distros, whether Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, Centos 8, etc.
Every time in the past I had to complite from source and every update
was a kind of a pain.
[...]
This is actually a trope in the wider Linux software ecosystem. It is
common for large applications there to have two layers of
‘developers’; a core group (often referred to as ‘upstream’) that does
the primary application development, and a distribution group (aka
‘downstream’) that takes the source code output from upstream and
turns it into installable packages for particular platforms (distros).
So for example, using the above terminology, I am one of the 'upstream
developers' for Rivendell; I am also the ‘downstream maintainer' for
Rivendell's RHEL/CentOS integration. Rivendell has historically had
other downstream maintainers for other distros —e.g. the Tryphon group
that for many years maintained a very solid Debian integration.
Unfortunately, when the Tryphon group disbanded a few years ago,
support for that integration evaporated.
I would welcome others coming aboard as downstream maintainers for
their distro of choice. To be a downstream maintainer does not require
extensive programming ability. What it does need is reasonable system
administration skills, familiarity with building software from source
code, and above all a good knowledge of the target platform's software
packaging and distribution system. I will gladly:
1) Accept PRs from downstream maintainers aimed at making Rivendell
work better on their platform of choice, and work with their authors
to get them accepted into the standard Rivendell releases.
2) Provide space on servers in the ‘rivendellaudio.org
<http://rivendellaudio.org>’ domain for hosting packages,
documentation and other materials for supporting Rivendell on their
platform of choice.
Anyone up for the challenge?
As a former member (founder) of Tryphon company, I've rebooted the
Rivendell 3 debian/ubuntu packaging with my new company : Draceo. The
current status is a functional package set working on Ubuntu 18.04, but
not on Ubuntu 20.04. The reason is dependencies. Some packages are not
available anymore on Ubuntu 20.04.
You can find informations on https://apt.rivendell-fr.org/
Disclaimer : The ASI cards are not supported, and the manpages are
broken. I plan to try sticking as close as possible to the rpm package
segmentation, but for the time being, there are mostly 3 packages :
rivendell, rivendell-server and librivendell, the doc package is
rivendell-doc.
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