[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 126, Issue 62

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Sun Sep 22 15:57:19 UTC 2013


On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Rob Jensen <bertaboy at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com>
> > To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Cc:
> > 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:
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone have any idea when an official portage Gentoo ebuild will appear?
> >>
> > 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.
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> > 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.
> >
> >>
> >> (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.)
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> Rob
>

I've got nothing, so feel free to go ahead. I have some show marathons
coming up so I don't want to mess with the system right now, plus I'd like
to wait a bit and let the early bugs shake out. But I'd be happy to hear
your experience... :-)

Karl
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