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

[Phil Bridges]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Robert Longbottom
<rongblor at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 17:17, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Robert Longbottom
>> <rongblor at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/02/2011 17:01, David Liana wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, lists.md301<lists.md301 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:lists.md301 at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Raymond Wagner
>>>>    <raymond at wagnerrp.com<mailto: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
>>>>        <http://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.).
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I'm about to go through the same update process.  According to the
>> directions, you need to set the SVN revision in your make.conf file.
>> Is there a list of acceptable SVN revision numbers that are available
>> to the ebuild?
>
> You must be reading some old instructions somewhere, since Mythtv is no
> longer in SVN, it's it GIT.
>
> See here for the readme for the method I used:
>
> https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/master/Gentoo/README
>

Thanks.  I was looking here: https://github.com/MarcT/mt-mythtv/wiki