[mythtv-users] MythTV dependencies and Ron's Ceton patch

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> > Is it the other way around?  I think it is trying to install .24.0+fixes
>> > from 2011.04.16 because that is the latest version of the unpatched
>> > libraries that it knows about, but I applied your patch to the
>> .24.1+fixes
>> > source.
>>
>> Oh, well maybe it is the other way around (it wants to downgrade). I'm
>> not 100% sure how to interpret that dependency output. I thought you
>> had just followed my mythbuntu instructions, which downloads the same
>> 0.24-0 source which I'm pretty was used to build mythbuntu's default
>> copy of myth. If you downloaded 0.24-1 fixes straight from git, then
>> I'm not sure how that would have worked.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ron Frazier
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>
> My head is spinning, but I think I got it.  I looked back at what I
> actually did.  I did exactly as you said in your instructions.  The problem
> is that I updated to .24.1-fixes, and overwrote some of my .24.1-fixes
> binaries with your patch generated .24.0-fixes binaries.  Now I have a mixed
> bag of .24.0-fixes and .24.1-fixes binaries.  Scary!
>
> I made a couple mistakes:
>
> First, I misunderstood your patch.  I thought I already had to be at
> .24.x-fixes to apply the patch.  Your patch is not a binary patch, but
> rather a source code patch.  It was quite obvious.  I don't know why I
> missed that.
>
> Second, I thought adding the updates repos would bring me to .24.0-fixes
> and not .24.1-fixes.  I should have also known this when it asked me if I
> was to keep up-to-date with .24.x or .25.
>
> I am not sure the best course of action at this point.
>
> -Tom
>

I could possibly just dpkg -i all the .24.0-fixes debs that were built with
your patch.  I wonder if that would fix the problem.  I turned off updates,
so I that should not get in the way in the future.  The Mythbuntu specific
updates repos may cause a problem at some point though.

-Tom
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