[mythtv-users] Anyone using Ubuntu Feisty myth packages

Tristan McCann tristan at aquaagua.net
Tue Apr 10 16:45:19 UTC 2007


> I have toyed with the idea of doing another repository that will do
> nightly svn checkouts and builds, but then that introduces
> interoperability problems if people start to mix and match, or decide
> that svn isn't stable enough for them.
> 
> Before I think too much more into the design required for nightly svn
> builds into debs, what are you looking out of building from source?
> The fact of compiling towards a particular processor, or just the
> newer packages?  If the latter, I'll think more about the process
> necessary.  If the former, then there is little that will be doable
> with regard to deb generation.

For me, it is necessary to track the -fixes branch to within a month, at 
least recently. I believe that Axel Thimm's Fedora and RHEL package 
repository follows -fixes, which is one reason why Fedora is such a 
popular MythTV distribution.

The thing that bit me after my Edgy install with the Ubuntu Mythtv 
packages is when I got an HD Homerun to play around with, those debs did 
not have the ability to tune QAM, because that was committed to the 
-fixes branch after those packages were created. The Edgy MythTV 
packages are really stale compared to -fixes. I actually expected that 
there would be a 3rd party repository for Ubuntu and MythTV due to the 
current popularity of Ubuntu, but when there wasn't, I began tracking 
-fixes myself from source. Along the way, other fixes that were really 
nice to have (such as changes to the way the database inserts were 
executed, which eliminated a lot of recording freezes) were committed to 
-fixes.

I have no urge to have packages of SVN Trunk, however. I like refinement 
more than features.

-Tristan McCann


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