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Bug 387167

Summary: www-apps/concerto - Concerto Digital Signage
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Scott Alfter <scott>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: enhancement CC: web-apps
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.concerto-signage.com/
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: new ebuild
multipage upload patch
patch to allow users to change their passwords
patch to remove Subversion dependency
patch to allow users to change their passwords
patch to fix image display on lame widescreen monitors that insist on running at 1280x1024
patch to use binaries provided by app-office/openoffice-bin to convert PowerPoint files
patch to use binaries provided by app-office/libreoffice-bin to convert PowerPoint files
/etc/local.d/ script to start [Open|Libre]Office
/etc/local.d/ script to stop [Open|Libre]Office

Description Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:00:26 UTC
Created attachment 289813 [details]
new ebuild

Concerto is a networked digital-signage system developed at RPI.  This ebuild includes some patches I've implemented on my installation for import of multi-page PDF and PowerPoint files, handling widescreen monitors that only report 4:3 and 5:4 resolutions in their EDID info, and the odd bugfix or two.
Comment 1 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:01:02 UTC
Created attachment 289815 [details, diff]
multipage upload patch
Comment 2 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:01:34 UTC
Created attachment 289817 [details]
patch to allow users to change their passwords
Comment 3 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:01:57 UTC
Created attachment 289819 [details, diff]
patch to remove Subversion dependency
Comment 4 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:02:39 UTC
Created attachment 289821 [details, diff]
patch to allow users to change their passwords
Comment 5 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:04:42 UTC
Created attachment 289823 [details, diff]
patch to fix image display on lame widescreen monitors that insist on running at 1280x1024

Build Concerto with the "squish" USE flag if you want to include this patch.  If your monitors are well-behaved, you shouldn't need this.
Comment 6 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:08:23 UTC
Created attachment 289825 [details, diff]
patch to use binaries provided by app-office/openoffice-bin to convert PowerPoint files

This will be selected if you're using openoffice-bin.  Either openoffice-bin or libreoffice-bin is required; the respective source ebuilds aren't supported.
Comment 7 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:09:07 UTC
Created attachment 289827 [details, diff]
patch to use binaries provided by app-office/libreoffice-bin to convert PowerPoint files

This will be selected if you're using libreoffice-bin.  Either openoffice-bin or libreoffice-bin is required; the respective source ebuilds aren't supported.
Comment 8 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:13:10 UTC
Comment on attachment 289819 [details, diff]
patch to remove Subversion dependency

All this does is remove a system call to svnversion, which perhaps was put in by RPI's Concerto admins to see what version of Concerto had been checked out on a particular server.  Since we're building from a tarball, this doesn't really apply.
Comment 9 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:25:36 UTC
Created attachment 289833 [details]
/etc/local.d/ script to start [Open|Libre]Office

This is needed to enable import of PowerPoint files into Concerto...it runs a headless copy of LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) which is used to convert PowerPoint files to PDFs.
Comment 10 Scott Alfter 2011-10-14 21:25:59 UTC
Created attachment 289835 [details]
/etc/local.d/ script to stop [Open|Libre]Office

This is needed to enable import of PowerPoint files into Concerto...it runs a headless copy of LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) which is used to convert PowerPoint files to PDFs.
Comment 11 Scott Alfter 2013-03-13 15:00:58 UTC
I've put my ebuilds (including this one, which has been updated a bit since my last post) up on GitHub:

https://github.com/salfter/portage
Comment 12 Scott Alfter 2016-05-12 16:25:05 UTC
The ebuild is still in my overlay (which has since moved to GitLab), but it's several revisions behind current upstream.  The ebuild's not been updated to keep up, so it's probably best to close this out as obsolete.