Hi Christian, > do you want to extend mpd that you can start multiple instances? > > Three years ago I submitted a patch for the wish of Jerome Haltom > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526420) to > support multiple instances. The patch works but there is still room > for improvement. If you want to have some kind of support for > multiple instances, I'm willing to work on the patch that it fits > for you.
thanks for drawing my attention to that bug; I hadn't actually looked at the patch before. My current feeling is that it looks like a fairly complicated solution for what I think is a rare problem (but I might be wrong there); do we really need to add explicit support for this? Wouldn't it be a perfectly ok solution if people who need 5 instances of mpd and thus create 5 slightly modified versions of mpd.conf also use 5 mpd init scripts, each with a different hard-coded value of MPDCONF? The other concern I have is that we also need to support equivalent functionality for systemd. It's easy for an admin to make 5 different copies of the systemd unit file mpd ships, but I'm not sure if it's possible to start a variable amount of daemons from a single systemd unit. But I like your README.Debian documentation. What if we extend that with the recommendation to also create multiple adapted versions of the init script / systemd unit, one for each mpd.conf? Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
