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

[Robert Longbottom]

On 11/02/2011 17:35, Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Robert Longbottom
> <rongblor at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/02/2011 17:17, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Robert Longbottom
>>> <rongblor at googlemail.com>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/02/2011 17:01, David Liana wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, lists.md301<lists.md301 at gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:lists.md301 at gmail.com>>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Raymond Wagner
>>>>>     <raymond at wagnerrp.com<mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>         On 2/10/2011 20:51, Robin Gilks wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>             Greetings
>>>>>
>>>>>             Does anyone have a howto on using the ebuilds from git? I
>>>>>             have read the
>>>>>             README file and have got the packages repository into
>>>>>             /usr/local/mythtv_portage and got as far as a --pretend on
>>>>>             the emerge and
>>>>>             it all looks OK.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         Check out the packaging repository to your hard drive.
>>>>>
>>>>>                 git clone git://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git
>>>>>         <http://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git>
>>>>>   /usr/local/mythtv_portage
>>>>>
>>>>>         Add the overlay to portage with the following line in your
>>>>>         /etc/make.conf
>>>>>
>>>>>                 PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/mythtv_portage/Gentoo"
>>>>>
>>>>>         Then just continue to update MythTV and the plugins as normal.
>>>>>           0.24 builds are marked as stable, while 0.25 builds will have
>>>>>         to be unmasked in your /etc/portage/package.keywords.  Rob Smith
>>>>>         has been updating the ebuilds every few days, and you can pull
>>>>>         the new sets by running the following.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>>     So is this going to be the "official" manner in which mythtv is
>>>>>     going to be supported in Gentoo going forward?  Perhaps the
>>>>>     transition to git has thrown a monkeywrench into things, but I
>>>>>     haven't seen much official action in Gentoo-land for 0.24, either in
>>>>>     portage (no alpha ebuilds) or on the bugs tracking.  On the open
>>>>>     Gentoo bugs ticket requesting a 0.24 ebuild, I see that people have
>>>>>     been offering their own ebuilds (and referencing the mythtv git ones
>>>>>     as well), but nothing from the official gentoo maintainer "cardoe"
>>>>>     (Doug Goldstein), or any timeline.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I've been waiting to try 0.24 on my system, but don't know if I
>>>>>     should wait for something to appear in portage, or go with the
>>>>>     mythtv-bundled solution.  I want to avoid having to switch
>>>>>     approaches mid-stream if possible.  If/when something is decided, it
>>>>>     would be nice for it to be published someplace (wiki, mailing list,
>>>>>     etc.).
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if it will be going forward, as I don't speak for Gentoo or
>>>>> MythTV.  But, the ebuilds work well and users can generate their own
>>>>> ebuilds using the provided python script.
>>>>> The upgrade was generally painless for me.
>>>>
>>>> I waited for (what felt like) ages for 0.24 ebuilds to appear in portage,
>>>> and eventually got bored of waiting.  The upgrade to the mythtv packaging
>>>> ebuilds was fairly painless and they seem to be following 0.24-fixes
>>>> pretty
>>>> closely and even if they don't it seems to be quite easy to generate your
>>>> own, which is good.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm about to go through the same update process.  According to the
>>> directions, you need to set the SVN revision in your make.conf file.
>>> Is there a list of acceptable SVN revision numbers that are available
>>> to the ebuild?
>>
>> You must be reading some old instructions somewhere, since Mythtv is no
>> longer in SVN, it's it GIT.
>>
>> See here for the readme for the method I used:
>>
>> https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/master/Gentoo/README
>>
>
> Thanks.  I was looking here: https://github.com/MarcT/mt-mythtv/wiki

Ah yes, MarcT's ebuilds seem to be the other popular option and I think 
they have been around for longer than the ones in the mythtv packaging 
repo.  But like you I couldn't work out how they worked with the new git 
repositories.

Robert.