[mythtv-users] mythbuntu-repos for Ubuntu 12.04?

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Fri Apr 13 15:27:39 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:41 AM, John Veness
<John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 21:51, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Nick Rout<nick.rout at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Thomas Mashos<thomas at mashos.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Mark Bobak<mark at bobak.net>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> So, in 12.04, we automatically get 0.25-fixes?  Is that right?  No
>>>>> need for an external package to configure the daily builds repository?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not exactly. The cmd line config of that went away. You need to
>>>> configure it via mythbuntu-control-centre now.
>>>
>>>
>>> With all due respect, IMHO that sucks!
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Removing that portion was so we could include it in the -common
>> package (and thus, include it with MCC by default). It was a tradeoff,
>> but I'd rather have it in by default than have the debconf interface.
>> If I can bring it back in the future I will, but it will need to be
>> reworked a bit and the earliest it would get in is 12.10.
>
>
> Thomas,
>
> I very much hope you can get a command-line interface for choosing which
> MythTV repo to use back in to 12.10, for those who use headless backends.
> Yes, I know you can ssh -Y to the machine and run MCC remotely (like we have
> to do with mythtv-setup, until that goes web-based anyway), but it's a pain!
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> --
> John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T
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As a workaround, you can skip the mythbuntu-repos package and just add
the repository manually using

'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.25'


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