[mythtv-users] Using Gentoo ebuilds from git packaging repo

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Does anyone have a howto on using the ebuilds from git? I have read the
> README file and have got the packages repository into
> /usr/local/mythtv_portage and got as far as a --pretend on the emerge and
> it all looks OK.
>
> Before I go further I'd like to know how I track updates to fixes/0.24 for
> example. Do I have to emerge each version specifically? eg.
>  emerge =media-tv/mythtv-0.24_p20110122
> or does the update mechanism that gets put into /etc/portage/postsync.d do
> that for me if I leave off the date string? or is that putting a copy of
> the git tree sources into /usr/portage/distfiles or does it only update
> the packaging repo.
>
> As you can see I'm a bit confused despite having used Gentoo for the last
> 8 years!!
>

Checkout the following repo.

https://github.com/MarcT/mt-mythtv

Usage instructions are here:
https://github.com/MarcT/mt-mythtv/wiki

John