[mythtv-users] A plea for some consideration for the poor suffering MythTV users

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Aug 8 16:22:10 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> I know I have had reason to build from source in the past, to test a patch
> for example.

But for a non-mythTV developer, the easiest way to test a patch
designed for a current release is to start with the source for the
packaged release for your distribution and modify that, rather than
downloading tarballs from mythTV directly.

For Debian derivatives, it's something like:

apt-get source mythtv
apt-get build-dep mythtv
[patch source]
dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg -i mythtv*.deb

Eric


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