[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.21

[jedi]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:28:54PM +1100, Bill Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Mario Limonciello
> <mario.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bill Williamson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Mario Limonciello
> > > <mario.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > What about mythbuntu "weekly fixes'" ?
> > >
> > > Since mythbuntu has gone official I've been a bit confused.  I have
> > > gutsy, and mythbuntu installed on top, and the weekly fixes URL in my
> > > sources.list, but I never get myth updates.
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> > As expected this is going to be a source of confusion.
> >
> > There has to be a balance chosen.  Yes 0.21-fixes is a fixes branch, but 0.20.2
> > shipped with 7.10.  It's either force everyone using that branch to switch to
> > 0.21, or let them stay on a "stable" 0.20.2.
> >
> > There have been no updates to the "fixes" branch because nothing has been
> > committed to 0.20.2.  It seemed silly to keep pushing updates when the focus was
> > only on 0.21 for the last few weeks.
> >
> > So here is the entire plan for 0.21+:
> >
> > 1) Get it in hardy (done)
> > 2) Get it on the mythbuntu-trunk branch so that people on 0.20.2 who were using
> > the -fixes branch don't need to switch
> > 3) Get an official backport into gutsy backports
> > 4) Once this backport is active, the mythbuntu-trunk branch will start to track
> > trunk again
> > 5) No more -fixes for the rest of gutsy.
> > 6) -fixes will resume for hardy with release-0-21-fixes.
> >
> > That sound sane?
> 
> 
> It seems sane, and I can see how/why you're doing it that way.  I'm
> not very keen on the backports (perhaps just from being burned by
> debian, maybe not rational?) repository... is there an easy way for
> someone like me running a stock ubuntu "current" + mythbuntu to get
> .21?
> 
> The way I see it my options are
> -wait until 8.04
> -download the files from the backports repo and install them manually
> -play with pinning and prios so that backports will be in my system,
> but NOTHING non-myth will be installed from it

--- My personal favorite: Just get the source tarball and build it.

    Interestingly enough, with my last Gutsy frontend install I thought
    I was finally going to start getting away from building my own sources.

    ...ohwellsomuchforthatidea

> 
> Is #3 my winner?  If so, does anyone know enough about apt pinning to
> help me make a config that will work?
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