[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu Auto-Builds Quick Easy Question

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I guess the main question is: How do I get Mythbuntu 9.10 to download
>> > the
>> > "fixes" branch to pull the most up to date "good" but "stable" copy of
>> > Myth
>> > when updated?
>>
>> Try the FAQ at http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds
>>
>> My best guess is try the "I wasn't asked what mirror to use.  This
>> isn't working!" answer.
>>
>> I am not running Mythbuntu 9.10 I am several releases behind so
>> auto-builds have not worked for quite some time for me so I hope above
>> works for you.
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> Yea, the FAQ isn't helpful.  It identifies the fact that there are multiple
> build types but doesn't identify how to set those types.  It did ask if I
> wanted updates to 0.22 or 0.23 and I selected 22, but the problem is that
> since the FAQ clearly states you cannot go back if you make the "wrong"
> selection I'm not about to follow some "half" documentation to run updates.
> I'd like some confirmation how NOT to get "trunk" installed on my system yet
> allow it to update with changes and bugfixes posted to stable.

I agree the documentation is poor, and a lot of it doesn't look like
its been updated since 0.22 came out. eg the README in the deb file
states:

"This package will work on all releases of Ubuntu (jaunty, intrepid,
etc) and will only need to be updated when a new trunk release is
available (ie, when 0.22 gets released, this package will need to be
updated for 0.23 trunk."

However the line that concerned you contained:

http://us.autobuilds.mythbuntu.org/mythbuntu/trunk-0.22/ubuntu

Open that in a browser and drill down to:

http://us.autobuilds.mythbuntu.org/mythbuntu/trunk-0.22/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mythtv/

You'll see it is all actually 0.22-fixes.

If you go back up the tree  to
http://us.autobuilds.mythbuntu.org/mythbuntu/ you'll see that the
repos are:

0.23/	
fixes-0.21/	
fixes/	
ppa/
trunk-0.22/
ubuntu/

Which is pretty confusing. However if you drill down into 0.23 you'll
see thats the trunk builds.

No, we shouldn't have to do this amount of investigation to see what
is going to be delivered or to figure out which settings to use. Why
they can't use the same names as upstream I am not entirely sure!