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

[Robert Longbottom]

On 11/02/2011 17:01, David Liana wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, lists.md301 <lists.md301 at gmail.com
> <mailto:lists.md301 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Raymond Wagner
>     <raymond at wagnerrp.com <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
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>         On 2/10/2011 20:51, Robin Gilks wrote:
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>             Greetings
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>             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.
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>         Check out the packaging repository to your hard drive.
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>                 git clone git://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git
>         <http://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git> /usr/local/mythtv_portage
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>         Add the overlay to portage with the following line in your
>         /etc/make.conf
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>                 PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/mythtv_portage/Gentoo"
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>         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.
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>     [snip]
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>     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.
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>     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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> I don't know if it will be going forward, as I don't speak for Gentoo or
> MythTV.  But, the ebuilds work well and users can generate their own
> ebuilds using the provided python script.
> The upgrade was generally painless for me.

I waited for (what felt like) ages for 0.24 ebuilds to appear in 
portage, and eventually got bored of waiting.  The upgrade to the mythtv 
packaging ebuilds was fairly painless and they seem to be following 
0.24-fixes pretty closely and even if they don't it seems to be quite 
easy to generate your own, which is good.

Robert.