[mythtv] Additional run-time dependencies

[Peter Bennett]

On 08/17/2017 12:02 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 5:21 AM Peter Bennett <pgbennett at comcast.net 
> <mailto:pgbennett at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Thomas
>
>     There is a change coming soon in MythTV that will require some
>     additional run-time dependencies to be installed. The change is to the
>     python bindings and ttvbd.py. The change is required to be done before
>     October 1st otherwise metadata will fail.
>
>     Packages that include python bindings or ttvdb.py will need the
>     following additional package installed:
>
>     python-pip
>
>     Also after the install this needs to be run (by root):
>
>     pip install --upgrade future requests_cache requests
>
>     I suggest getting these in soon, so that when we commit the code
>     change
>     the dependencies will be installed before or with the code change. The
>     dependencies can be installed before the code change without
>     causing any
>     problem, however installing the code change without the dependencies
>     will cause metadata jobs to fail.
>
>     Peter
>
>
> Is this necessary for MythTV release 30 or prior versions?
> -- 
> -Thomas

This is necessary for all versions - I think we should apply it to 0.27, 
0.28, 29 and 30 (depending on what PPAs we still have). It is being 
forced on us because of a change in thetvdb.com, which is switching off 
their old API on Sept 30th.

Peter

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