[mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

[Craig Partin]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:23:44 -0800, Richard Sears <sr22flyboy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> How do I instruct emerge to use the CVS instead of the ebuild on the system..?
> 
> I have never done that!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:20:32 -0800, Jim Kusznir <jim at kusznir.net> wrote:
> > Dan Littlejohn wrote:
> >
> > >There are good guides for Gentoo installs here:
> > >
> > >http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
> > >http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html
> > >
> > >Includes use flags and window manager opinions.
> > >
> > >for the 15 min install there is Jarod's Guide for Red Hat, lol.
> > >     http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > I run 2 gentoo myth systems; my first one was gentoo from the beginning,
> > and it worked great.  My second one was for my father-in-law, and he was
> > scared of the compiling, so he pressured me to go the fedora route.  I
> > tried.  After 3 days following the "15 minute procedure" in jarod's
> > guide, I gave up and switched to gentoo.  Started the install, went to
> > bed, and had the system functioning by lunch.
> >
> > I tend to make use of both of the gentoo references above; they both are
> > a little different, and by reading them both, you can tweak the system
> > more to your needs.
> >
> > With respect to window manager, on my first system I used flexbox (or
> > something like that; I don't remember anymore).  I might even suggest
> > the generic one that comes with X.  I like the gentoo ideal:  only what
> > you need, and no more.  So for a dedicated myth system, both gnome and
> > kde are way excessive.  With that said, on my second myth system, I
> > installed a full kde and an IR keyboard/mouse.  So I can do some basic
> > computing with the system as well as myth.  In the end, it comes down to
> > what you were planning on doing with it.
> >
> > I now have a PVR-500 (requires the latest ivtv, not currently in an
> > ebuild and often requiring some custom installing), so I install ivtv by
> > hand; everything else I do through ebuilds.  It really isn't that hard
> > to make an upgraded ebuild if there's no current ebuild available.  I
> > would highly recommend it.
> >
> > If you search around, there are actually ebuilds for the CVS version.  I
> > think these make it even easier for gentoo users to use CVS than any
> > other dist. out there: all you do is re-emerge myth and its components.
> > The ebuilds will automatically check out the latest CVS snapshot,
> > compile, and install all without intervention.  It usually works pretty
> > well, too.
> >
> > I am definately sold on gentoo as a platform for mythtv; I think it fits
> > better than all the precompiled packaged systems.
> >
> > --Jim
> >
> > >Dan
> > >
> > >
> > >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:26:03 -0800, Richard J. Sears
> > ><rsears at americanis.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Richard -
> > >>
> > >>Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I had a few more
> > >>problems with Asterisk and the addon's :-)
> > >>
> > >>Couple of quick questions. First, would you share your make.conf USE
> > >>flags with me so I get them right the first time and second, Did you use
> > >>KDE or Gnome..?
> > >>
> > >>Thanks Again !!
> > >>
> > >>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:11:51 +0100
> > >>Rickard Olsson <richie at webhackande.se> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Richard J. Sears wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did
> > >>>>you use  emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and
> > >>>>compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>I used the CVS just before 0.17 came out and the ebuilds when it was
> > >>>released. The ebuilds were a no-brainer to setup. There are some USE
> > >>>flags that you need for stuff like nuvexport and ffmpeg that I haven't
> > >>>seen documented anywhere (aac, threads and another that I don't recall
> > >>>right now), but other than that, no problems.
> > >>>
> > >>>Most other sundry files are in portage - it's possible that there's
> > >>>something missing but I haven't found anything.
> > >>>
> > >>>There's been no real need for any config file management issues (MythTV
> > >>>has just one config file AFAIK and you normally edit it through
> > >>>mythsetup, the rest is in the database).
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
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This article tells how to set up custom ebuilds in a separate location
so that they don't get creamed by emerge sync.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds

There should be a thread here about CVS ebuilds.

Another wonderful Gentoo thing is that there are docs and how tos for
almost anything