[mythtv-users] new FAQ entry for 19.1 (gentoo specific)

Achint Sandhu sandhu at kilo.dyndns.org
Thu Jul 3 10:02:39 EDT 2003


Hi Mojo,

	Thanks for the instructions... 

	Just one minor correction.... The patch line should be
	
	patch -p0 < mplayer-0.90rc5-mythtv-20030407.diff

Cheers,
Achint

On July 3, 2003 03:44, mojo wrote:
> 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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