On 1/11/2006 5:44 PM Scott Alfter wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > >>On 1/10/2006 9:59 AM Scott Alfter wrote: >> >> >>>The MythTV Subversion ebuild I obtained from Gentoo Bugzilla won't build >>>MythTV >>>with FireWire support because the dependencies are incorrect/outdated. I >>>don't >>>know if someone else has put up an updated ebuild somewhere else already, but >>>here's what I'm now using: >>> >>>http://alfter.us/files/mythtv-svn-ebuilds.tar.bz2 >>> >>> >>I'm currently running 0.18-r2 from the regular portage tree. I also >>have MythDVD, MythGallery, MythWeather, MythMusic, MythWeb, & >>MythStreamTV plugins installed. I'd like to try SVN as I've read about >>lots of nice features. Do I need to unemerge the old before emerging >>your mythtv-svn? >> >> > >Yes. You also need to have dev-util/subversion installed to fetch the files >(but that should be obvious). > >
Nothing is obvious to me. :) I'm glad you pointed that out. >Another consideration is that once you upgrade, you won't be able to downgrade >to 0.18 without dumping the database and restoring it from a backup made before >the upgrade. (Doing this, of course, will lose any activity since the >upgrade.) The behind-the-scenes tools that upgrade the database schema from >one version to the next are one-way. > > Thank you again! I'll be sure to dump MySQL before I upgrade. >I've also made another change to the ebuilds. The MythTV ebuild had an >override with which you could download and build a particular revision, but the >various plugins didn't have this capability. I've pushed that override into >the mythtv-svn eclass, so your add-ons will come from the same revision. Add >MYTHTV_SVN_REVISION=$num to /etc/make.conf and all of the ebuilds will pull >revision $num. Leave it out and you'll get whatever is most recent. > > This sounds like a nice feature. Any recommendations for a stable revision? I would like the new features but am not skilled enough to deal with weird breakage. (I know, then I should just stay with stable releases...) Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, & More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
