iconoclast hero - 2023-03-12

Huh, I cannot edit, delete, or close my ticket. Fun. Anyway, hopefully this time is better:

So I generally prefer to use git so I cloned repo https://github.com/gobater/minidlna, did the ./autogen.sh; apt install <missing dependancies>; ./configure; make -j4; sudo make install. When I got it to the point it would spit it out, it said that $ ./minidlnad -V Version 1.3.1 so I figured what the hell, let me try the sourceforge version which downloaded as minidlna-1.3.2.tar.gz.

After $ mv /usr/local/sbin/minidlna /usr/local/sbin/minidlnad~, I repeated the install steps above. It still said $ ./minidlnad -V Version 1.3.1 ; $ ./minidlnad~ -V Version 1.3.1 after and reinstalling from the Sourceforge tarball.

Version questions: Anyway, it appears that the version number that is packaged is either a) incorrect or b) reporting the previous version. Care to figure out which? Also, the git and sourceforge files still say minidlna...so is it readymedia or minidlna? Have there been a significant amount of changes since the repo version: 1.3.0+dfsg-2.2build1? If I can go back to minidlna, great, I don't think I really need anything that serviio does as long as x265 is supported on the client side. Don't really remember why I stopped using it...

Second, there's a dearth of information on compiling and configuring minidlna. Can I basically just find and copy my old minidlna.conf and init.d script from their locations to ones on the new computer, create a non-login user, and tell init to load the daemon script? I have no idea how init, system-v and systemd get along, but there's 40-some files in /etc/init.d so they obviously do. I ask because I do have all the old files from probably Ubuntu 12.04 that appear usable.

Alternately, is there a tutorial you recommend?