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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, lists.md301 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists.md301@gmail.com">lists.md301@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 2/10/2011 20:51, Robin Gilks wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Greetings<br><br>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></blockquote><br></div>Check out the packaging repository to your hard drive.<br><br> git clone git://<a href="http://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git" target="_blank">github.com/MythTV/packaging.git</a> /usr/local/mythtv_portage<br>
<br>Add the overlay to portage with the following line in your /etc/make.conf<br><br> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/mythtv_portage/Gentoo"<br><br>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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<div>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.</div>
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<div>The upgrade was generally painless for me.</div></div><br>