Hi,
There has been some progress around "vdrctl".
Am 08.02.2015 um 15:05 schrieb Lars Hanisch: [...]
vdrctl
What I like to see in the future is a tool "vdrctl" which will add/remove those symlinks or list the available or actived plugins etc. I would like to only specify an API for this tool, so every distribution can develop its own tool. Of course there can be a reference implementation like a simple shell-, Perl- or Python-script.
In the following ARGSDIR is the configured conf.d path in your Make.config (or read by pkg-config). AVAILDIR is ARGSDIR/../conf.avail if not another directory is given. Filenames are the names of the files without their directory.
Usage: vdrctl [global options] command [command options]
Global options: --argsdir=<directory> read files from <directory> instead of ARGSDIR --availdir=<directory> read files from <directory> instead of ARGSDIR/../conf.avail
Commands:
list (without options) print a sorted list of all configuration files from AVAILDIR
--enabled print a sorted list of all configuration files from ARGSDIR
--disabled print a sorted list of all configuration files from AVAILDIR which are not symlinked to ARGSDIR
enable <filename> create a symlink in ARGSDIR pointing to the file in AVAILDIR
disable <filename> remove the symlink in ARGSDIR
edit <filename> start an editor so the user can add/remove options to the file in AVAILDIR
Added a new command:
status print a list of all available configuration files and if it's enabled (symlinked), disabled (no symlink in ARGSDIR) or static (regular file in ARGSDIR).
A reference implementation has been started on github:
https://github.com/CReimer/vdrctl
For the next vdr developer release I will send a patch so it will possible to print the commandline help of a single plugin instead of having the help of vdr and the given plugin. And maybe the help will have a (selectable) custom format, so it can be directly used in a conf-file. In the extended_edit-branch this help is embedded into the conf-file when invoking "vdrctl edit" (and is removed before saving it, just like git or mercurial are doing it with commit messages).
A kind of useful tool, if you have made the work and split all the parameters across some files.
Stay tuned...
Lars.