[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out

Rob Jensen bertaboy at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 11:20:05 UTC 2013


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> From: Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:03:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:58 AM, lists.md301 <lists.md301 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Anyone have any idea when an official portage Gentoo ebuild will appear?
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> I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. MythTV has languished in portage for a while--I seem to recall it went over a year without an update, then a little flurry of action a few months ago, but it's still been pretty quiet.
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>> Is it valid to copy an existing 0.26 ebuild, and modify it for the proper proper branch/hash to get 0.27-fixes?  Of course that also requires manual edits (after checking) for any new dependencies/revisions.
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> I would guess that would be a good start. There weren't any earthshaking changes from 0.26 to 0.27, so you should be able to add the few new dependencies.
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>> (I bit the bullet yesterday, after examining the modifications necessary to make tmdb3 work with my 0.24-fixes master backend system, and cloned my root partition and slogged through my (very stale) portage refresh in a chroot.  Painful, but not as bad as I thought.  Most annoying part was circular dependencies resulting from changes in QT package ebuilds, from x11-libs to dev-qt, to make sure I had 4.8.)
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> I understand why you and others get a system working and leave it alone (treat it like an appliance). However, I take the opposite approach with my Gentoo mythtv setup--I update daily. When I first set up my myth system almost 8 years ago it took me several weeks to get everything working (and I wasn't a linux noob either), so I figure daily updates let me deal with the breaking changes a little bit at a time instead of a lot of pain (and potential serious downtime) at once. If something stops working, I have a very good idea which update caused it and can focus my attention on that. I think that's a testament to Gentoo's approach--I've been able to keep my system up to date with the latest (mostly stable) packages and kernels over 8 years and never once had to reinstall. I did do a emerge --emptytree @world when I changed platforms from an amd64 to Sandy Bridge i3, but that just rebuilt everything in-place with minimal action required from me.
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> Karl

If either of you has written up a local ebuild script, I'll be willing
to test it out.  I only have 7 packages in my packages.keywords file,
so I have a mostly-stable build as well.  The system is AMD64 and is
only used as a backend, supplemented with mythweb.  If you haven't
started working on it, I may try to tackle that this weekend.

(Sorry for the duplicate posting - it took me a while to figure out
how to change subject lines with GMail; stupid Google....)

Rob


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