[mythtv] Debian Packages

Matt Zimmerman mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:13:43 -0500


On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:09:20PM -0800, Andy Barber wrote:

> Hello.  I tried the most recent debian packages last
> night and had a few problems.
> 
> First, pwgen is used in the postinst script, but it is
> not required by the package.  Since I didn't have the
> pwgen package installed, the postinst of mythtv would
> die for me.  

I just uploaded 0.7-8 which adds the forgotten dependency on pwgen.

> Second, I noticed that the packages stick config files
> in /etc/mythtv that I thought were supposed to be in
> /usr/share/mythtv (at least according to the source
> code).  How does that work?  

symlinks.

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 - mdz