On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 22:21:31 -0400 drew Roberts <zotz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> is there a safe way to have rivendell make this check > and run the rdadmin bits automatically on such an upgrade? > > How can such automation of the database upgrade blow things up > horribly and thus make this a terrible idea? Submitted for your approval.... Take a plant like mine, or any cluster really... Say, I were to walk in and see that TV production is not currently being used, so do an upgrade there. The system auto-detects an obsolete database for itself, and does the auto-update you suggest. That database lives on a redundant hot-standby pair of servers serving the whole plant. What about the other 8 or so radio installations here, that all use the same database ? OK, some of them could crash horribly, and it wouldn't be fatal, but the live network feeds could potentially affect several hundred professional broadcast facilities across the country, and in our case across continents ( plural ), that pay us good money for that to not happen. Better, would be for the upgraded install to throw up a warning that the configured database is obsolete, so functionality may be limited, as well as un-squashing bugs, if it'll start at all. But in the final analysis, Rivendell is a *professional* broadcast play-out system, by and **for** professionals. In a professional environment, particularly one of a level that requires an actual, real system administrator, to actually administer systems, some things should not be automated, IMHO. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
