<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2/10/2011 20:51, Robin Gilks wrote:<br>
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Greetings<br>
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Does anyone have a howto on using the ebuilds from git? I have read the<br>
README file and have got the packages repository into<br>
/usr/local/mythtv_portage and got as far as a --pretend on the emerge and<br>
it all looks OK.<br>
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Check out the packaging repository to your hard drive.<br>
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git clone git://<a href="http://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git" target="_blank">github.com/MythTV/packaging.git</a> /usr/local/mythtv_portage<br>
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Add the overlay to portage with the following line in your /etc/make.conf<br>
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/mythtv_portage/Gentoo"<br>
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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.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>[snip]<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.).<br>
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