[mythtv-users] MythTV dependencies and Ron's Ceton patch

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> > Is it the other way around?  I think it is trying to install
>>> .24.0+fixes
>>> > from 2011.04.16 because that is the latest version of the unpatched
>>> > libraries that it knows about, but I applied your patch to the
>>> .24.1+fixes
>>> > source.
>>>
>>> Oh, well maybe it is the other way around (it wants to downgrade). I'm
>>> not 100% sure how to interpret that dependency output. I thought you
>>> had just followed my mythbuntu instructions, which downloads the same
>>> 0.24-0 source which I'm pretty was used to build mythbuntu's default
>>> copy of myth. If you downloaded 0.24-1 fixes straight from git, then
>>> I'm not sure how that would have worked.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ron Frazier
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>>
>> My head is spinning, but I think I got it.  I looked back at what I
>> actually did.  I did exactly as you said in your instructions.  The problem
>> is that I updated to .24.1-fixes, and overwrote some of my .24.1-fixes
>> binaries with your patch generated .24.0-fixes binaries.  Now I have a mixed
>> bag of .24.0-fixes and .24.1-fixes binaries.  Scary!
>>
>> I made a couple mistakes:
>>
>> First, I misunderstood your patch.  I thought I already had to be at
>> .24.x-fixes to apply the patch.  Your patch is not a binary patch, but
>> rather a source code patch.  It was quite obvious.  I don't know why I
>> missed that.
>>
>> Second, I thought adding the updates repos would bring me to .24.0-fixes
>> and not .24.1-fixes.  I should have also known this when it asked me if I
>> was to keep up-to-date with .24.x or .25.
>>
>> I am not sure the best course of action at this point.
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>
> I could possibly just dpkg -i all the .24.0-fixes debs that were built with
> your patch.  I wonder if that would fix the problem.  I turned off updates,
> so I that should not get in the way in the future.  The Mythbuntu specific
> updates repos may cause a problem at some point though.
>
> -Tom
>

Sorry to barrage everyone with emails.

Ron, how well would your patches work against .24.1-fixes source?  I am
guessing that it may be just fine.  .24.1-fixes is the latest stable release
of MythTV, and many potential users of your patch may already be there.

-Tom
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