Ahhhh, its that last paragraph that I overlooked.
I will give the install script a go.
To be completely honest, what scares me most is updates. While rare I'm
sure, a failed update on a production machine could be disastrous. Yet
at the same time if you don't update at all [don't fix something that
isn't broke] yet station A has features that station B doesn't [because
they are on different versions], then they complain.
I just need to take a leap of faith...
-Alan
On 10/3/2018 10:56 AM, Fred Gleason wrote:
On Oct 3, 2018, at 11:24, Alan Smith <alansm...@flinn.com
<mailto:alansm...@flinn.com>> 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/
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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