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[simoncn]

(20-11-2015 18:56)igrnt Wrote:  The 2.0.15 Raspberry Pi image should be good. The latest (x86) is 2.1.18, but the differences are probably minor. And can probably be updated.

I will have a peek at how VortexBox does it.

There are two reasons for having a deb - ease of installation from the GUI (otherwise it involves SSH command line access), and automatic installation as a dependency.
It's not a showstopper to have to install MinimServer by hand, but it does limit the audience.

I will look at how the plugins work for other packages. Can you suggest anything similar for me to look at?

Quote:I will have to inspect the MinimServer installation script, but I don't see any conflict, as far as I'm aware it uses a pretty standard init script, and any plugins in OMV just call this with, e.g. stop, start as normal.

Are you intending that the plugin would directly manipulate the System V init files for MinimServer? This should only be done via the minimserver/bin/setup command.

Quote:Finally, not sure I follow re installation of future releases - I installed MinimServer via SSH just once and have updated it via MinimWatch from my Windows client since then. I haven't paid too much attention to the version numbers but are you saying if there was a major release I would have to manually reinstall?

For any kind of release (major or minor), the user would need to reinstall MinimServer. MinimWatch can install updates but not releases.