[mythtv] Re: MythTV 0.18 debs

[William Uther]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:33:48 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org> 
wrote:

> I am away on a trip, and will not be able to prepare Debian or Ubuntu
> packages of MythTV 0.18 until I return (~10 days at best).  Please do 
> not
> send me email asking about the packages; I do not have time to reply to
> everyone who has already done so, and I hope that this announcement 
> will
> stem the tide.

I've updated the debian directories for 0.18.  This is the most I've 
ever done with debs so I'm not confident I've got it entirely right.  
If someone knows more and wants to check it, I've tarred up the debian 
directories for mythtv and the plugins:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/mythtv-debdir.tgz
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/mythplugins-debdir.tgz

The plugins dir only handles a couple of the plugins, not all of them.  
To make debian packages from these, you untar them to add a debian dir 
in the mythtv and mythplugins dirs respectively.  Then you 
'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b' from each of those directories.

I haven't yet figured out how to publish the debs this creates, 
although I assume that isn't too hard.

There is one major change from Matt's versions: Matt used a cron job 
for mythfilldatabase.  I removed that - I use mythtv's builtin ability 
to call mythfilldatabase.  Unfortunately, this doesn't clean up the old 
cron job - you'll need to delete /etc/cron.daily/mythtv?????? yourself.

I think it'd be a good idea if this was put in a source repository 
somewhere.  Any chance of making another directory in the mythtv CVS 
repository?  We could put these debian directories in there, as well as 
gentoo scripts, rpm stuff, etc.  Then scripts could be kept up to date 
with CVS as it evolves.

Be well,

Will        :-}

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