[mythtv-users] new FAQ entry for 19.1 (gentoo specific)
mojo
mojospam at thegeekclub.net
Thu Jul 3 03:44:37 EDT 2003
some quickie instructions for patching mplayer for gentoo users... use
them in the FAQ if you so desire. With all the transcoding stuff now i'm
not sure if this is really necessary anymore... is it?
well here it is anyway...
you may be thinking:
Q. why not download the source directly and do it that way?
A. because the portage tree will not recognize that it is installed and
when another program requests it as a dependency you will end up with
two copies of mplayer installed. Yes, there are ways around that but
they are not reccomended. Also, gentoo's ebuild likes to put the files
in different locations than the regular install does so for conformity
throughout your system it is wise to let gentoo do the installation.
--VERY ROUGH DRAFT--
# cd /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer
# ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild fetch
# ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild unpack
# cd /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-0.90_rc5/work
Copy the patch mplayer patch available from
http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu:8088/~mdz/mythtv/ to the current directory.
<somebody could insert the correct wget command in here if they so
desired but i dont know it well enough to feel comfortable including
that myself>
then
# patch -p1 < mplayer-0.90rc5-mythtv-20030407.diff
it should respond indicating it patched 3 files.
now go back to the directory with the ebuild:
# cd /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer
# ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild install
and finally to make sure portage recognizes that you have mplayer
installed later on when you try and emerge something dependent on it.
if you exited any of the above steps with errors then do not proceed
with this last step.
# ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild qmerge
this last line this should output:
>>> media-video/mplayer-0.90_rc5 merged.
thats it!
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