Upmpdcli does not require MPD to be running on the same host as it can be configured to connect to a different host running MPD. I have confirmed this by removing `need mpd` from the upmpdcli init script. I'm currently running Gebera and upmpdcli on a Gentoo machine and MPD on a different Linux host that doesn't have upmpdcli available. The current upmpdcli ebuild forces MPD to be installed and running on my Gentoo machine even though it's not required.
Just to elaborate on how I ran upmpdcli without mpd running on the same host. * Stop upmpdcli and mpd * Remove 'need mpd' from /etc/init.d/upmpdcli * Set the 'mpdhost' option to a different host in /etc/upmpdcli.conf * Start upmpdcli * Ran `pgrep mpd` to ensure mpd wasn't running If you decide to drop the RDEPEND on mpd, it would be useful to mention in the post install message that if ruining mpd on the same host as upmpdcli, then mpd needs to have curl support enabled.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=40f04f1ef95b0aa1b5e2e30e3bd9649441e9f5da commit 40f04f1ef95b0aa1b5e2e30e3bd9649441e9f5da Author: Erik Mackdanz <stasibear@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-02-09 15:52:39 +0000 Commit: Erik Mackdanz <stasibear@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-02-09 15:52:39 +0000 media-sound/upmpdcli: Bump to 1.4.0 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/670130 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/673552 Signed-off-by: Erik Mackdanz <stasibear@gentoo.org> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.59, Repoman-2.3.12 media-sound/upmpdcli/Manifest | 1 + media-sound/upmpdcli/files/upmpdcli.initd | 14 ++++++++ media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.4.0.ebuild | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
This is fixed in 1.4.0. Thanks for calling this out.
Thank you for fixing this bug. There is a minor error in the following einfo line: einfo "mpdinstance on the same host (https://bugs.gentoo.org/670130)." 'mpdinstance' should be 'mpd instance'.
