[mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

[Robin Elvin]

Or you could mask it from being installed.....

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Rob

On Thursday 06 January 2005 14:34, Baudouin, Andrew wrote:
> If you manually compiled a CVS version of any software package, portage
> would not know that you had it installed.  Trying to emerge a different
> version of mythtv from the portage tree, for example, would stomp all over
> your CVS installation.
> 
> You'd just have to do a "note to self" type of thing that you had CVS mythtv
> installed and not to try to emerge it.
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew Baudouin
> Applications Programmer
> AWC, Incorporated
> andrew.baudouin at awc-inc.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Baumeister [mailto:jens.baumeister at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:22 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS
> 
> Hi,
> 
> a couple of days ago, I asked about which Fedora Core version to use
> with MythTV and DVB and promptly received an answer. Thanks for that.
> 
> After doing some more research I now lean towards using Gentoo instead: 
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/4lxdb makes it sound a bit easier to look out for
> all the dependencies than doing everything by hand and the install
> guide for Gentoo - while a bit intimidating - looks like the right mix
> of geekiness and ease-of-use for me. :-)
> 
> I'm wondering, however, how well Gentoo plays with CVS versions: If I
> decide later on to grab a CVS version of MyhTV, would I be able to go
> back to using one from the portage tree if I wanted to, or would that
> be as difficult as trying to mix installs from most of the binary
> package managers with manual compiles?
> 
> Thanks any insight.
> 
> Jens
> 

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Rob