[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu repos on Mint (was Re: No .25 option when reconfiguring repos)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/13/2012 12:59 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 04/13/2012 10:42 AM, John Veness wrote:
>>> Linux Min 10 is based on Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) which will not be
>>> receiving a packaged version of MythTV 0.25 from the Mythbuntu repos. See
>>> http://www.mythbuntu.org/mythtv/0.25.
>>
>> FWIW, for any Mint users, I think the Mythbuntu team was interested in
>> adding "automatic" repo support for Mint systems (something like
>> http://www.mythbuntu.org/repos ), but the problem they keep running up
>> against is lack of information on properly mapping Mint versions to Ubuntu
>> versions.  If anyone is interested in helping out, this could be very useful
>> for a lot of Mint users.
> This is semi-correct. There is a way to get the related Ubuntu
> codename on a Mint system (IIRC I did it using lsb_release). The issue
> stems from Mythbuntu-repos using Python and when it attempts to detect
> the codename it gets the Mint codename. I wasn't able to track down
> how to get the Ubuntu codename from the Mint install using Python,
> which is what needs to be done. While it would be relatively easy to
> add a mapping from the Mint codename to the Ubuntu codename (providing
> that information is available somewhere), it would be far better to
> not have to implement a hack like that when the information is
> obviously already on the system somewhere.

Thanks for the correction.  I knew I was completely mangling the 
details, but tried to keep the idea generic enough that it might inspire 
someone to get involved--at which point I knew you guys would provide 
the "real story."  :)

It's probably better to have the details here, now, so that people will 
better know if they can offer help.

Mike