[mythtv-users] Gentoo 0.28 ebuild

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Karl,
>
> Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 10:13:33 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hoi Rich,
> >
>
> >  Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 8:23:52 PM, you wrote:
> >
>  >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> On 04/19/2016 11:28 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>  >>>>
>  >>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Stuart Auchterlonie
>  >>>> <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>> All the original logging methods still exist.
>  >>>>> ie. syslog, to file(s)
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>> The only real logging change is disabling the logserver
>  >>>>> by default.
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>> Personally i always use logging to files, because i'm running
>  >>>>> both 0.28 and master in parallel to aid development.
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>> Thanks - just to clarify.  Does logging to file work without
> logserver
>  >>>> enabled at build time?  If the backend itself and its children can
> log
>  >>>> directly to file/syslog that is fine by me, and seems similar to how
>  >>>> things used to work before the logserver came along.
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> Yes. mythAnyprogram without mythlogserver running will log as directed
>  >>> by its --logpath or --syslog switches.
>  >>>
> >
>  >> In that case, would a Gentoo OpenRC user mind doing a test for me?
>  >> Edit the mythtv-0.28.ebuild file and comment out or delete the
>  >> following line:
>  >>         use systemd || myconf="${myconf} $(use_enable mythlogserver)"
> >
>  >> Then install mythtv and let me know if your logging is working exactly
>  >> as it did before.  It sounds like it should.  I'll update the ebuild
>  >> again after we get the results of testing in...
> >
>  >> --
>  >> Rich
>  >> _______________________________________________
> >
> >  More then a year ago I fiddled with ebuilds.
> >  - What again were the commands to create the manifest?
> >  - Does the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable still work the same (after the
> >    changes to sync)?
> >
>
> > 1. ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-0.28.ebuild digest
>
> > 2. Not sure what you mean about "work the same". I haven't tested
> > it lately but if you put an ebuild with the same name into the
> > appropriate overlay directory, it will override the one in /usr/portage/
>
>
> > Karl
>
> Last year there was that news message about sync because of the move
> to git. In that message there were als references to overlays. But it
> does seem to work the same with local overlays. I just wanted to be
> sure without spending an hour or more searching through gentoo
> documents. I have before found up-to-date documentation on these
> changes to be scarce.
>

Ah, okay. I remember reading about the switch to git, but I don't recall
reading that it would affect overlays. Since epatch-user works quite well I
haven't needed to create or tweak ebuilds for some time.

Karl
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