[mythtv-users] Putting a toe in the CVS water

[Cory Papenfuss]

> 1) ATRPMs installs into /usr but all the mailing list stuff I could
> find talked about keeping different versions under /usr/local and
> using symlinks to switch between versions with tools like Stow, Encap,
> OpenPKG. There is a  HOWTO at
> http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UpgradeToCvsHowTo but it doesn't go
> into much detail. What to do if I want to install CVS stuff into
> /usr/local but all the existing ATRPM stuff is in /usr?
>
 	I *highly* recommend encap (although I haven't tried any of the 
other pseudo-package managers).  Download, compile, install 'epkg' from 
www.encap.org.  For all the mythtv parts and packages, put something 
like this in the settings.pro:

PREFIX = /usr/local/encap/mythtv-20050117

Compile and install all bits and pieces of mythtv there, and run 'epkg -i 
mythtv-20050117'

 	Normally, one would put all packages in individual encaps like:
/usr/local/encap/mythtv-0.16
/usr/local/encap/mythvideo-0.16
/usr/local/encap/mythmusic-0.16

and they'll all get mapped (via symlinks) to /usr/local.  I found that 
mythtv doesn't know about its extra modules if you do that, though... 
rolling them all together did the trick.

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
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