[mythtv-users] Channel change scripts and Gentoo

[Henry Fleischmann]

Chris Picton wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 00:08 -0400, Henry Fleischmann wrote:
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>>It seems that the Gentoo emerge of Mythtv did not install the contrib 
>>directory so I ended up having to do a little searching to find a serial 
>>channel change script for my STB. I'm not sure if I have the right one 
>>or not but I guess I'll find out tomorrow when the cable co. enables the 
>>serial port on the box. I noticed the same thing (no contrib dir) with 
>>Xmltv when I tried to run the icon script detailed in the mythtv install 
>>doc.
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>>Does anyone know a way force the emerge to install everything? Should I 
>>just compile Mythtv from source? 
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>You have compiled mythtv from source if you are running gentoo.
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>If specific files are not installed, you can always go
>to /usr/portage/distfiles and uncompress the source to find what you are
>looking for.
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Thanks for the reply. I'll check in portage for the scripts. I realize 
myth had been compiled from source, I just thought the mythtv ebuild 
might have been setting some option that forced a type of install 
different from ".configure", "make", "make install" using the standard 
mythtv tarball.