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

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Dave Richardson <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:18:02 -0600, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com>
> 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..
>>
>> 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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>
>
> Greg, I've been using *buntu for a while and have been noticing a number of
> issues you cited.
> I'm about ready for a change.
> May I inquire as to which distro you changed to from *buntu?  Thanks.
> (no, I'm not trolling, I'm curious)

I still use ubuntu for my laptops (which a couple have a frontend
installed), but I use minimyth for my FEs and RHEL6 (which I notice
was released this weekend, so 3rd party redistributors should have
distros out shortly)  for my main backend.  Ubuntu's (lack of)
ext4/libahci upkeep is the *main* reason I will never use them on a
backend again though.

Like I said, the regular ubuntu mirrors (for non-mythtv stuff) I have
never had issues with (maybe just lucky), but these mythbuntu mirrors
that are included in the .deb package from the mythbuntu website gave
me grief for 2 weeks on some test systems before I finally gave up.
Selecting on mirror would have 0.24 libmyth, but no 0.24 frontend
package, so changing to another would have no 0.24 packages..  It just
got frustrating that partial dependencies are allowed to be
propagated.