[mythtv-users] MythTV dependencies and Ron's Ceton patch (Tom Bongiorno)

Thu Aug 11 03:53:12 UTC 2011

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ken Truesdale <kat at tiac.net> wrote:

> > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:21:17 -0400
> > From: Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV dependencies and Ron's Ceton patch
> > To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> mythtv-users mailing list
> >>>> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> >>>> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>
> >
> > Sorry to barrage everyone with emails.
> >
> > Ron, how well would your patches work against .24.1-fixes source?  I am
> > guessing that it may be just fine.  .24.1-fixes is the latest stable
> release
> > of MythTV, and many potential users of your patch may already be there.
> >
> > -Tom
>
>
> FWIW, I also found that the package manager was confused.  It said I had a
> list of broken packages.  Not coincidentally, all of the packages it listed
> as broken were all the packages that I did not install.  As per Ron's
> instructions, I initially had only installed the 4 packages he listed.  But
> after I realized I had this problem, I went back and did the dpkg -i on all
> remaining packages.  Here's the full list of installs I did:
>
> sudo dpkg -i mythtv_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_all.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythtv-common_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythtv-backend_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i
> mythtv-frontend_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythbrowser_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythweather_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i
> mythtv-transcode-utils_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythvideo_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythmusic_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythnetvision_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mytharchive_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythgame_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythnews_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythgallery_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i mythweb_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_all.deb
>
>
> I'd feel a lot better about telling you that you should do this, Tom.  But
> I have been unable to use the Ceton from inside Myth yet.  I got stuck on
> this over the weekend and haven't had time to get back to it this week.
>  I've been reading about what other people have found today and it looks
> like I'm alone with my symptoms so I'm just going to go back to basics and
> try again.  I also think I should try the network setup that has been
> described in the other thread.
>
> Until then, all I can say is that package manager is happy after I did the
> above.  Although package manager isn't the thing that I care most about!
>
>
> Ken.
>
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Did your problems start before or after you ran "dpkg -i" on the remaining
debs.  <knocking on wood>So far, my setup is working very well.</knocking on
wood>

-Tom
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