[mythtv] Gentoo CVS ebuild

Eric Andresen ruler111 at cox.net
Mon Mar 10 21:00:11 EST 2003


If the dependencies are correct (which they are in most cases), then
yes, that is exactly how it works.

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:24, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> Out of curiosity (and maybe expressing my Gentoo ignorance), is the MythTV
> .ebuild setup good enough so that I could take a freshly installed Gentoo
> system with only the stage1/2/3 tarball and do an "emerge mythtv-cvs" and
> it would install everything necessary to get Myth up and running?  I took
> a quick look at the dependencies and it looked like it could be but
> wanted to see.  I'm considering gentoo for use in a 2nd/new MythTV box
> at home and was curious if this is at that level yet.  If so this is great.
> 
> > I hope this is the right place, and that this might be useful to 
> > somebody.
> > 
> > I have taken Tony Clark's excellent mythtv ebuild for Gentoo and 
> > modified it to pull from the latest CVS... for those of us that like to 
> > stay on the bleeding edge, and use Gentoo, it might find it of use...
> > 
> > I also updated (well, renamed and it worked) the xmltv ebuild to the 
> > newest version... now that all the rest of the ebuilds that Tony had to 
> > put together are in the main portage tree, these are the only two that 
> > are needed.
> > 
> > Put these files in /usr/local/portage (or wherever) and modify your 
> > /etc/make.conf to have:
> > 
> > PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
> > 
> > Then you can:
> > 
> > emerge mythtv-cvs
> > 
> > and you should get the latest stuff...
> > 
> > Given its small size, I'm just attaching it... again, sorry if that's 
> > wrong... let me know if you see a problem with these... I'm not exactly 
> > used to doing this.
> > 
> > Again, thanks to Tony for most all the work!
> > 
> > Bruce
> 
> Chris
> 
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