[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:58 AM, lists.md301 <lists.md301 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Anyone have any idea when an official portage Gentoo ebuild will appear?
>
> I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. MythTV has languished in portage
for a while--I seem to recall it went over a year without an update, then a
little flurry of action a few months ago, but it's still been pretty quiet.


> Is it valid to copy an existing 0.26 ebuild, and modify it for the proper
> proper branch/hash to get 0.27-fixes?  Of course that also requires manual
> edits (after checking) for any new dependencies/revisions.
>
> I would guess that would be a good start. There weren't any earthshaking
changes from 0.26 to 0.27, so you should be able to add the few new
dependencies.


> (I bit the bullet yesterday, after examining the modifications necessary
> to make tmdb3 work with my 0.24-fixes master backend system, and cloned my
> root partition and slogged through my (very stale) portage refresh in a
> chroot.  Painful, but not as bad as I thought.  Most annoying part was
> circular dependencies resulting from changes in QT package ebuilds, from
> x11-libs to dev-qt, to make sure I had 4.8.)
>

I understand why you and others get a system working and leave it alone
(treat it like an appliance). However, I take the opposite approach with my
Gentoo mythtv setup--I update daily. When I first set up my myth system
almost 8 years ago it took me several weeks to get everything working (and
I wasn't a linux noob either), so I figure daily updates let me deal with
the breaking changes a little bit at a time instead of a lot of pain (and
potential serious downtime) at once. If something stops working, I have a
very good idea which update caused it and can focus my attention on that. I
think that's a testament to Gentoo's approach--I've been able to keep my
system up to date with the latest (mostly stable) packages and kernels over
8 years and never once had to reinstall. I did do a emerge --emptytree
@world when I changed platforms from an amd64 to Sandy Bridge i3, but that
just rebuilt everything in-place with minimal action required from me.

Karl
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