[mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Wed Jan 11 19:06:23 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:46, Preston Crow wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:43 -0800, Scott Alfter wrote:
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> > Chad wrote:
> > > On 1/10/06, Scott Alfter <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > >> The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't
> > >> build MythTV with FireWire support because the dependencies are
> > >> incorrect/outdated. I don't know if someone else has put up an updated
> > >> ebuild somewhere else already, but here's what I'm now using:
> > >>
> > >> http://alfter.us/files/mythtv-svn-ebuilds.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Excellent.  If you reply to that bug report and attach your fix, it
> > > will be more centralized.
> >
> > I considered doing that, but the bug-wranglers apparently have their
> > panties in a bunch over continued activity on a bug that's marked
> > RESOLVED WONTFIX.
>
> Yup, that's why I haven't updated it, even though I've made few fixes,
> such as supporting new plugins and fixing mythfrontend-svn to build the
> frontend only instead of the backend only (oops).

Please don't do that - the "frontend-only" build only works as a porting aid.  
It's not meant for Linux.  Random things won't work.

Isaac


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