[mythtv-users] Fwd: ansible settings for Raspberry PI 64 bits

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 20/11/2021 01:24, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> On 11/18/21 11:27 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:48 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> I believe that crystalhd support was removed from MythTV some time ago.
>>> If nobody disagrees, I can remove it from the ansible master scripts.
>> The issue may be that the ansible repo is not
>> versioned (expected to be one set of roles for
>> all), so if someone wishes to use ansible to
>> set up their system to build (say) fixes/29 with
>> crystalhd support, they could end up disappointed.
>>
>> Of course, the project only officially supports
>> the released version and master, so supporting
>> only the latest (and master) in ansible is not totally
>> unreasonable (although the ansible way would
>> probably be either additional roles, or additional
>> domain specific selectors).
>> _
> 
> Stuart
> 
> Is there a setting for ansible that can specify to install crystalhd is 
> available and ignore it if not available? If not we can just take it out 
> since few people would be using it, or else create specific rules for 
> bullseye and any others that don't have crystalhd available any more.
> 
> Peter
> 

Hi Peter,

We typically do the latter, move crystalhd packages into OS release
dependent sections. You'll see it a lot in the playbooks, often due
to package name changes.

Regards
Stuart