[mythtv-users] 0.24-fixes JYA Repo for Lucid?

[Andre]

On 14 Nov 2010, at 16:18, Greg Oliver wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>> On 11/14/2010 09:25 AM, nospam312 wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> For the time being, I'm reconsidering if I will continue supporting a
>>>> repo.. I just spent the day recompiling mplayer and ran out of time.
>>>> Mythbuntu packages once again changed their build system making it
>>>> annoying to merge again.
>>>> You may be better off using the mythbuntu auto build instead.
>>> 
>>> Thanks I understand time is precious.  Cheers for providing the
>>> repositories in the past.
>>> 
>>> I have removed the JYA repositories and added the Mythbuntu ones back
>>> using sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythbuntu-repos but no new versions are
>>> found.
>>> 
>>> On the installed packages it says 2:0.23.1 is the 2: causing it not to
>>> upgrade?
>>> 
>>> Do you know how I can go back to the Mythbuntu packages from the JYA
>>> packages without having to reinstall/reconfigure Myth?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks.
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>> I think there is a problem with the Mythbuntu repo...It was supposed to be
>> fixed,but I haven't heard whether it was or not.. If you have an IRC client
>> installed you can check on the #ubuntu-mythtv  channel..The people who would
>> know are on there..
> 
> One thing I can say about mythbuntu's mirrors is that their rsync
> procedure is completely unreliable.  Rather than breaking, mirroring,
> and syncing - they obviously sync directly to the mirror with no
> staging area.  If you dpkg-reconfigure mythbuntu-autobuilds, and
> select a different mirror several times in a row while running apt-get
> upgrades every time, you get wildly different results.  IIRC (it has
> been a while since I used them), the DE mirror and PPA always had the
> most up to date packages.  The US mirror was always the slowest to get
> updated..
> 
> This also unfortunately allowed broken (not always broken, but not
> 100% updated) upgrades.  Yet another reason I quit using *buntu for
> mythtv..

And when the builds mess up they only carry the latest build so it's not possible to simply revert to the previous working versions.

JYA always had a load of older builds left there which came in handy a couple of times!

Andre




> 
> The regular ubuntu mirrors do properly use rsync though, so these
> autobuilds have to be using a different system to push them out...
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