[mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS
Nick Rosier
nick.rosier at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 04:18:47 EST 2005
Jim,
could you send me some instructions (off-list); I've been building my
own ebuilds for ivtv but my builds for mythtv seemed to fail (some
library which could not be linked to...).
I prefer keeping as much in portage as possible; makes it so easy to un-install.
N.
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:44:34 -0800, Jim Kusznir <jim at kusznir.net> wrote:
> I actually made my own myth ebuilds based on cvs snapshots. I called it
> "myth-0.17_alpha1". It actually was quite easy, and this way portage
> knows all about it. When a new formal release comes out, portage can
> easily deal with it for me.
>
> Learning a bit about portage and making ebuilds took me about half a
> day; but after that I could crank out the ebuilds for each subpart in
> about 3 minutes each. If you're interested, I could send some
> instructions. Keep in mind that I'm still a "gentoo developer-wannabe"
> (aka very new to making ebuilds), so this is basically the minimum
> required to work; not really the best it can be.
>
> --Jim
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