[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out

Dan Littlejohn dan.littlejohn at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 21:19:44 UTC 2013


Rich:

Yes, I would also like to chime in a a big thank you for updating the
Gentoo ebuilds in portage.  I was jumping between overlays for a while and
it was always a pain to get working.  Just did an emerge update a couple of
days ago and everything more less just worked.  Thanks!

Dan


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Rich Freeman <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Rob Jensen <bertaboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> From: Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com>
>> >> 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.
>> > If either of you has written up a local ebuild script, I'll be willing
>> > to test it out.
>>
>> If somebody has one by all means open a bug, otherwise I plan to get
>> one in portage fairly soon.
>>
>> Not quite sure what is meant by things being pretty quiet - if
>> anything I think things have been quiet in a good way.  I've been
>> posting monthly fixes for 0.26 and we just stabilized 0.26 a month ago
>> (which is a bit of a milestone after the long inactivity).  Things got
>> busy so I'm about a month behind, but I should have another 0.26-fixes
>> in my overlay today and in portage in a few days if testing goes well.
>>  I want to get that out since 0.26 is basically EOL so that we have
>> something fairly recent to stabilize and then from there I plan to
>> move to 0.27 with monthly fixes...
>>
>> If anybody wants to pitch in and lend a hand, they're more than
>> welcome...  :)
>>
>> Rich
>>
>
> I'm glad you're involved with Gentoo, Rich. I thought Doug Goldstein was
> still taking the lead, and he seemed to have lost interest in maintaining
> it (I can relate). I did notice the -fixes updates, but I hadn't seen any
> 0.27_pre ebuilds, so I just figured the project was languishing again.
> Anyway, thanks for your help.
>
> Karl
>
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