[mythtv-users] Revised MythTV Subversion ebuilds for Gentoo available
Drew Tomlinson
drew at mykitchentable.net
Thu Jan 12 02:14:53 UTC 2006
On 1/11/2006 5:44 PM Scott Alfter wrote:
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>Drew Tomlinson wrote:
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>>On 1/10/2006 9:59 AM Scott Alfter wrote:
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>>>The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't build MythTV
>>>with FireWire support because the dependencies are incorrect/outdated. I don't
>>>know if someone else has put up an updated ebuild somewhere else already, but
>>>here's what I'm now using:
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>>>http://alfter.us/files/mythtv-svn-ebuilds.tar.bz2
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>>I'm currently running 0.18-r2 from the regular portage tree. I also
>>have MythDVD, MythGallery, MythWeather, MythMusic, MythWeb, &
>>MythStreamTV plugins installed. I'd like to try SVN as I've read about
>>lots of nice features. Do I need to unemerge the old before emerging
>>your mythtv-svn?
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>Yes. You also need to have dev-util/subversion installed to fetch the files
>(but that should be obvious).
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Nothing is obvious to me. :) I'm glad you pointed that out.
>Another consideration is that once you upgrade, you won't be able to downgrade
>to 0.18 without dumping the database and restoring it from a backup made before
>the upgrade. (Doing this, of course, will lose any activity since the
>upgrade.) The behind-the-scenes tools that upgrade the database schema from
>one version to the next are one-way.
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Thank you again! I'll be sure to dump MySQL before I upgrade.
>I've also made another change to the ebuilds. The MythTV ebuild had an
>override with which you could download and build a particular revision, but the
>various plugins didn't have this capability. I've pushed that override into
>the mythtv-svn eclass, so your add-ons will come from the same revision. Add
>MYTHTV_SVN_REVISION=$num to /etc/make.conf and all of the ebuilds will pull
>revision $num. Leave it out and you'll get whatever is most recent.
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This sounds like a nice feature. Any recommendations for a stable
revision? I would like the new features but am not skilled enough to
deal with weird breakage. (I know, then I should just stay with stable
releases...)
Thanks,
Drew
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