Snakeoil Gear Isolation Beta Series

[agent_kith]

Some comments and questions on installing 1.2 Alpha3 on 16.04/1.1.11 instance.

• Mpd 0.21.25 was originally on 1.1.11 instance; was it replaced by the optimally optimised version on 1.2 Alpha3?

It's a yes/no/maybe. Both are optimised, just differently. Basically 1.2.x is built on newer tools, and linked statically (So that it should in theory work everywhere).

Mpd 0.22.3 not available; can you please make it available in Alpha4

0.22.3 is included in Alpha 3? Do you mean the latest 0.22.4?

Are there any new features in Alpha3 or is this more for proving the concept of the new installer?

Alpha3 is more on improving the robustness of the installer, as well as fixing some bugs and slight improvements (e.g. better way to shutdown the API backend).

Assume that Alpha4 can be applied to instance with Alpha3 and it will override all settings?

Hmmm. I can't remember, gotta go and check. Maybe I can set this as an option (i.e. whether to keep old settings or not).

Can backup be improved in Alpha4 so that it also backs up LMS database and settings?  One less thing for me to restore manually from Alpha4 onwards.

Support for this will be added eventually, not sure if it will be in Alpha (or beta), but yes, it will be more fully featured in the future.

Understand your motivations in having an installer covering other distros that that are 16.04, 18.04 based.  Does it then mean that someone on SnakeOil 16.04 can remain on 16.04 forever?  Yes, 16.04 will go off support soon and no longer get security updates.  But it is music server/player, so it is not critical to get the latest patches.

Yes. 16.04 sounds really good in my setup (compared to 14.04 and 18.04, havn't tested 20.04). So the new 1.2 series will make sure the key players (MPD, and Squeezelite) will continue to work. Not too sure about LMS as I do not control that. And the move to 20.04 allows other people who prefers HQPlayer, JRiver, etc to move ahead.

This still sticks to the Snakeoil philosophies of "Music Your Way. Designed By Us, defined by you". Allowing one to tailor their computer exactly the way that sounds best in their setup.
 
Also, in other news.. Can confirm it's a kernel issue on 20.04 with the Jetway motherboard. I've recompiled a kernel and that seem to work fine, but then it crashed at the install side of things (I think I borked the CD somehow). The whole idea of 1.2 is so I can do away with spinning new Ubuntu ISOs, that plan didn't work out too well. Will explore other ways to get this working. So stay tuned.