<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Rob Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bertaboy@gmail.com" target="_blank">bertaboy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> From: Karl Newman <<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a>><br>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>
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> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:03:43 -0700<br>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out<br>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:58 AM, lists.md301 <<a href="mailto:lists.md301@gmail.com">lists.md301@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Anyone have any idea when an official portage Gentoo ebuild will appear?<br>
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> 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.<br>
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>> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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>> (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.)<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> Karl<br>
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If either of you has written up a local ebuild script, I'll be willing<br>
to test it out. I only have 7 packages in my packages.keywords file,<br>
so I have a mostly-stable build as well. The system is AMD64 and is<br>
only used as a backend, supplemented with mythweb. If you haven't<br>
started working on it, I may try to tackle that this weekend.<br>
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Rob<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've got nothing, so feel free to go ahead. I have some show marathons coming up so I don't want to mess with the system right now, plus I'd like to wait a bit and let the early bugs shake out. But I'd be happy to hear your experience... :-)<br>
<br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>