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

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 2/10/2011 20:51, Robin Gilks 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.
>>
>
> Check out the packaging repository to your hard drive.
>
>        git clone git://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git/usr/local/mythtv_portage
>
> Add the overlay to portage with the following line in your /etc/make.conf
>
>        PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/mythtv_portage/Gentoo"
>
> Then just continue to update MythTV and the plugins as normal.  0.24 builds
> are marked as stable, while 0.25 builds will have to be unmasked in your
> /etc/portage/package.keywords.  Rob Smith has been updating the ebuilds
> every few days, and you can pull the new sets by running the following.
>

[snip]

So is this going to be the "official" manner in which mythtv is going to be
supported in Gentoo going forward?  Perhaps the transition to git has thrown
a monkeywrench into things, but I haven't seen much official action in
Gentoo-land for 0.24, either in portage (no alpha ebuilds) or on the bugs
tracking.  On the open Gentoo bugs ticket requesting a 0.24 ebuild, I see
that people have been offering their own ebuilds (and referencing the mythtv
git ones as well), but nothing from the official gentoo maintainer "cardoe"
(Doug Goldstein), or any timeline.

I've been waiting to try 0.24 on my system, but don't know if I should wait
for something to appear in portage, or go with the mythtv-bundled solution.
I want to avoid having to switch approaches mid-stream if possible.  If/when
something is decided, it would be nice for it to be published someplace
(wiki, mailing list, etc.).
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