[mythtv-users] Gentoo / MythTV question

[Nedim Cholich]

On 11/12/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:<snip>

> > <www-apps/mythweb-0.21
> >
> > This'll enable any version of MythTV (and plugins) less than 0.21.
> > This
> > should include any versions based on 0.20-fixes SVN but exclude
> > anything
> > from SVN head (which should go in as 0.21_pre).
> >
> > You may need to add other applications to this list, if they're
> > dependencies for MythTV.  In this case, add them with specific
> > versions
> > (e.g. =media-libs/libdts-0.0.2-r5) as you'll probably want to stick to
> > stable versions where possible.
>
>
> This would work as well, up until Myth gets upgraded past 0.21.
>
> Of course if you wanted to live dangerously you could just put an
> "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS= "~(arch)" directive into your /etc/make.conf file,
> but that would cause *all* unstable packages to be accepted.


I do this on my laptop, but not myth boxen. The problem is that once you go
unmasked like this it's very hard to go back to stable without massive
recompile. One of the main arguments people cite against Gentoo is the
frequency of compiling. But if you stick with stable, it's really not that
bad. Anyway... I'm monologing...

You probably want to make sure your system is up to date before
> installing Myth:
>
> emerge --sync
> emerge -avuDN world
>
> But if you're running Gentoo you really have to study all the
> possibilities that the masking system and portage in general allow.


Emerge esearch and then run esync instead of emerge --sync. This will cache
the metadata after each sync so that you can run esearch which is the same
as emerge -s but instant.
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