[mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Thu Jan 6 11:26:30 EST 2005


On Thursday 06 January 2005 14:22, Jens Baumeister wrote:
> 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?

here is my /usr/local/portage tree (slightly edited to only include 
mythtv/ivtv stuff and removing old ebuilds)

it is what i use to build mythtv/ivtv every day
hope it helps
--
simon
ps this is for building myth (and the various plugins - execpt mythphone) from 
cvs. if you are new to gentoo then maybe this is not for you. YMMV
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