[mythtv-users] MythTV on AMD64 Gentoo

[Eric Weide]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:53:56 -0500, Ben Whitcher
<b-whitcher at northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 19:55, Stephen Tait wrote:
> > In the meantime, can't you just use the ~x86 version?
> 
> Do you know if Gentoo allows this?  It seems like from what I've read on
> the forums, this is a bad idea for AMD64 systems.  Does anyone know how
> to install 32-bit software (like ivtv) on AMD64 Gentoo?
> 

I don't know if I would try ~x86.  I don't have any experience with that.

> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 21:35, Eric Weide wrote:
> > Also, as I understand, you shouldn't use 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"
> > emerge mythtv'  anymore.  You should create a file,
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords and fill it with the packages you want
> > installed as masked (~)...
> > media-tv/mythtv ~x86
> > media-plugins/mythgame ~x86
> > media-plugins/mythnews ~x86
> > media-plugins/mythmusic ~x86
> > media-plugins/mythvideo ~x86
> > www-apps/mythweb ~x86
> >
> > ~amd64 in your case.  A bit off topic, but I thought I'd let you know.
> >  It's mentioned in the gentoo forums quite a few times, although I
> > can't seem to find it right now!
> 
> I would do this, but as soon as mythtv becomes unmasked, I plan on using
> the "stable" version.  If I edited my package.keywords file, I would be
> committing my system to always upgrade to the ~amd64 (unstable) version
> of mythtv.
> 

In my experience, it's few and far between new versions of mythtv in
portage.  If I recall correctly, there was only 1 version of 12, 13,
and 14, and now 2 of 15 (15 and 15.1).  I use the ~x86 version and
haven't upgraded very often.

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