add a man page

[retokromer]

• general functions and parameters are considered
• except the serachlto function, which is not completely clear to me
• CUNY TV's specific functions are not considered so far

If OK, I’ll merge and make a new release.

[retokromer]

Update: searchlto also uses CUNY TV's own structure.

[kieranjol]

manpage LGTM in terms of formatting and typos etc anyhow.

[retokromer]

BTW: The main goal is to have, as in the other installations, «something» other-than-an-error-message happening when calling the installed name (here ltopers) in the terminal.

[privatezero]

Looks good to me! Regarding searchlto, it isn't CUNY specific per-se, but was designed to facilitate the way that CUNY needs to search records across the LTO database.

[retokromer]

Thank you! Is there any available information about the structure of the database? That would be useful when one wishes to generalise.

[privatezero]

Currently there is a doc in progress about the database functionality - it is incomplete and needs revision (will be working on this soon). It does however have tables representing the structure!

It lives (for now) here: https://github.com/mediamicroservices/mm/blob/master/Resources/dbinfo.md

I don't think anyone external to CUNY has tested this, so I am sure there are unanticipated bugs, but in theory this could be setup on any computer running MySQL with the command createpremisdb -c and then configuring in mmconfig.

[privatezero]

I also am seriously considering renaming that script, as the DB has expanded far beyond gathering PREMIS data to also collect LTO schemas, fixity and perceptual hashes.

[retokromer]

👍 for renaming

[retokromer]

What about divide the commands in two groups:

• brew install ltopers
• brew install ltopers --with-db

I guess, this way it would be simpler for general users.

[retokromer]

My full proposal is at https://github.com/amiaopensource/homebrew-amiaos/issues/46.