[mythtv-users] mythbuntu daily builds stuck at 25423?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 20:43:02 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Thomas Mashos <tgm4883 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 09:32 -0700, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>> >
>> > There is now a PPA for 0.23.1. The 0.23.0 PPA will not get any more
>> > updates.
>>
>> Hrm.  I was not operating out of the PPA but from the mythbuntu
>> repository directly at http://us.autobuilds.mythbuntu.org/mythbuntu/
>>
>> > https://edge.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/0.23.1
>>
>> So where is the canonical Mythbuntu repository?  Is it a PPA or is it at
>> mythbuntu.org?
>>
>
> As Mythbuntu is not a canonical project, there is no canonical Mythbuntu
> repository. us.autobuilds.mythbuntu.org is mirrored from the PPA, so you
> should be able to manually switch to 0.23.1
>
>>
>> How were users to find out about this 0.23 -> 0.23.1 changeover if I had
>> not posted here?  Shouldn't there be some more automated mechanism to
>> notify and/or upgrade people following a "fixes" stream?
>>
>
> There isn't an automated way to find out about the change. You may be able
> to subscribe to MythTV.org and see the upgrade there, but you won't
> automatically get upgraded to the next version (ie. 0.23.1 from 0.23.0).
> This is by design and will not change, although I'd be open to input on how
> to notify people of the upgrade.
>
>>
>> Perhaps the mythbuntu-repos package update that you refer to would have
>> done all of this automatically?
>>
>
> Nope, you wouldn't have been automatically notified about this.

There have been two recent updates to mythbuntu-repos on my system. I
have installed them both.

upon dpkg-reconfoigure mythbuntu-repos I still only have the choice
between 0.23 and 0.24, no 0.23.1

Surely an update to mythbuntu-repos should offer 0.23.1?


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