<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 21, 2023, at 6:04 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">I've been studying the links about PEP 668 and its effect on mythtv. <div><br></div><div>It seems to me that if a user just installs mythtv from a package then all is good. </div><div><br></div><div>If a user tries to build from source and install without packaging first then that is where the PEP 668 will get you unless you know about the dangerous override.</div><div><br></div><div>A user of mythtv on Ubuntu 23.04 can always get a package even of the Master version by waiting until the automatic packaging to happen every so often.</div><div><br></div><div>I just followed the wiki page for Installing on Debian:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian</a><br></div><div>with some help from my discussion back a few months ago at:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/mythtv/users/643975?search_string=Debian%2012%20;#643975">https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/mythtv/users/643975?search_string=Debian%2012%20;#643975</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I got mythtv installed this way as packages without any PEP 688 issues that I know of. </div><div><br></div><div>So this seems to be the safer way to install now on bookworm due to python3 3.11....upgrade.</div><div><br></div><div>So this long winding lead into my question, How do you update mythtv on Debian using this self built packaging method? </div><div><br></div><div>With ubuntu it's just apt update && apt upgrade -y. I don't see that working here for Debian.</div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>There is no repository set up to do an auto build of the packages for Debian, so no place for apt update to check for a new version.</div><div><br></div><div>The PPA for ubuntu MIGHT(as in probably not) work as a Debian repository, but I don’t think so.</div><div><br></div><div>If you wanted to automate an update in Debian, you would need to modify the instructions for building/installing on Debian as in the link you used for installing. And build a script for it.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like a good exercise for learning how to package for repositories! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, I think I’ll stick with the ubuntu PPA repositories as they are well maintained and learn some other things. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards!</div><br><div><br></div></body></html>