[mythtv-users] Using Gentoo ebuilds from git packaging repo

[Robert Longbottom]

On 11 Feb 2011, at 05:44 AM, Rob Smith <kormoc at mythtv.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>> Before I go further I'd like to know how I track updates to fixes/0.24 for
>> example. Do I have to emerge each version specifically? eg.
>>  emerge =media-tv/mythtv-0.24_p20110122
>> or does the update mechanism that gets put into /etc/portage/postsync.d do
>> that for me if I leave off the date string? or is that putting a copy of
>> the git tree sources into /usr/portage/distfiles or does it only update
>> the packaging repo.
> 
> As Raymond said,
> 
> If you follow the instructions for the selfUpdate command, you just
> run emerge --update and things will just work (tm)(r).
> 
> I update the builds every few days and eventually it will be a daily
> update (if there has been changes).
> 
> 0.24 builds are arch
> 0.25 are ~arch
> 
> You just emerge them as you would the vanilla Gentoo builds or if you
> already have the vanilla Gentoo builds, you can just emerge -u world
> 
> Thanks and let us know if you have any problems!
> ~Rob

I've been using these for a few weeks now and they are working nicely for me - thanks!

All that seems to be missing is a mythweb ebuild. Any chance of adding one?  I ended up just grabbing mythweb from git and saving it to my webroot. 

Wish I'd known about that script to generate new ebuilds though, I spent ages creating a slightly later version one when I was being impatient one day. Still, I learnt a fair bit In the process :)

Robert.