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

Scott Alfter mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org
Thu Jan 12 01:44:38 UTC 2006


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Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 1/10/2006 9:59 AM Scott Alfter 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with FireWire support because the dependencies are incorrect/outdated.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
> 
> I'm currently running 0.18-r2 from the regular portage tree.  I also 
> have MythDVD, MythGallery, MythWeather, MythMusic, MythWeb, & 
> MythStreamTV plugins installed.  I'd like to try SVN as I've read about 
> lots of nice features.  Do I need to unemerge the old before emerging 
> your mythtv-svn?

Yes.  You also need to have dev-util/subversion installed to fetch the files
(but that should be obvious).

Another consideration is that once you upgrade, you won't be able to downgrade
to 0.18 without dumping the database and restoring it from a backup made before
the upgrade.  (Doing this, of course, will lose any activity since the
upgrade.)  The behind-the-scenes tools that upgrade the database schema from
one version to the next are one-way.

I've also made another change to the ebuilds.  The MythTV ebuild had an
override with which you could download and build a particular revision, but the
various plugins didn't have this capability.  I've pushed that override into
the mythtv-svn eclass, so your add-ons will come from the same revision.  Add
MYTHTV_SVN_REVISION=$num to /etc/make.conf and all of the ebuilds will pull
revision $num.  Leave it out and you'll get whatever is most recent.

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