Hi all,
vdrcm-0.0.2 - the VDR Config Manager for managing VDR configuration files is now available at [1].
What is this all about? You may remember the ARGSDIR feature introduced in VDR last year, which allows to store all the CLI parameters supplied to VDR and its plugins spread over several files with the extension *.conf in INI style, located for example in the /etc/vdr/conf.d directory. They only need to contain INI sections named like [vdr] or [plugin-name], followed by one option per line, then vdr launched with no CLI-parameters at all will read these files in their file name order.
Just like other implementations (for example vdrctl used by yaVDR), vdrcm will actually symlink config files from a pool directory /etc/vdr/conf.avail to ARGSDIR, when it enables a plugin, or delete the symlink only, when disabling it. It also lets you define the explicit order of the plugins, by prefixing the symlinks with a number, or fires up the text editor defined in the EDITOR environment variable, and all this interactivlely in a CLI console, by using whiptail or dialog, see sreenshots at [2]. Note that the screenshots are from version 0.0.1, running with dialog, now I noticed that whiptail looks a lot better and is now preferred if both are present on the system.
There is also a non-interactive pure CLI-mode supporting enabling or disabling a plugin by its name, and promoting the order of a plugin before another one, by the index before re-ordering. These CLI-options should be suitable for writing a true vdr Plugin for managing plugins, which should need to call these commands with setuid in order to be able to execute them, and scan the directories for refreshing the list of available/active/inactive plugins in the OSD. There were such type of plugins in the past, but they were too distribution-specific. The ARGSDIR-feature would allow any distribution to use this type of VDR/plugins configuration, therefore also the usage of the same management tools for them. I'm planning to write such a plugin in the near future, as spare time will permit it.
The runtime dependencies of vdrcm are quite basic: - which - coreutils - util-linux - grep - pkg-config (optional, see README for a workaround when missing) - whiptail or dialog (optional if only the CLI-mode is used).
For more information and a short visual usage summary, check the README.md at the homepage.
Have fun, Lucian
[1](Homepage) https://github.com/lucianm/vdrcm [2](Screenshots) https://github.com/lucianm/vdrcm/wiki/Short-visual-usage-summary [3](Releases) https://github.com/lucianm/vdrcm/releases