[mythtv-users] Anyone using Ubuntu Feisty myth packages

Mario Limonciello mario.mailing at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 17:09:21 UTC 2007


Tristan,

I understand the desires here better for 0.20-fixes to be tracked a little
bit closer.  Once Feisty is released, I have to sort out a bit of a mess
with regards to webhosting, but I should be able to set up a weekly cron job
that will build from the "latest" 0.20-fixes into debs on that repo for
those that need/want it inbetween releases.  I'll post back to the list with
more information about this when its properly organized.  As for that QAM
fix, I'll make sure that it gets into the feisty packages before release
next week.

Mario

On 4/10/07, Tristan McCann <tristan at aquaagua.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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