[mythtv-users] Anyone using Ubuntu Feisty myth packages

Ben Edwards funkytwig at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 13:13:21 UTC 2007


On 10/04/07, Roo <roo.watt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/04/07, Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > Since edgy release, I have been working with maintenance on the Ubuntu
> packages.
> >
> > I *do* use all the packages that I build on all of my frontends and
> backends.  They do indeed track the 0.20-fixes branch within reason.  Due to
> Ubuntu's release procedure, you won't commonly see updates between the 6
> month releases unless something big needs to be updated.
> >
> > Hold off until Feisty release to use the packages though.  I have one more
> set of changes coming in that should hopefully be the final resolution to
> all of the DB issues people encounter due to group membership/misreading of
> debconf dialogs and such.  The version on the packages will be
> 0.20-svn20070122-0.0ubuntu5.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mario
>
> Hi Mario,
>
> Maybe you could help point me in the right direction...
>
> I have been considering creating a .deb that is an "empty" (metal) package
> that installs all the required development libraries for source compilation.
>
> The other possibility would be to maintain a list of the package names that
> are needed to compile, this could be a wiki article and could then be
> maintained by the community.

apt-get build-dep mythtv

I actually use this even when building from source and it works great.

Ben

> I think the wiki is probably the best way to go as it can be updated easily
> as trunk changes, eg the new taglib requirement for mythmusic.
>
> The other part of the problem is the /etc/init.d/* scripts needed and others
> scripts. I guess it would be best if we used the scripts that your *.debs
> use if you don't mind.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roo.
>
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