Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the portage tree and every time thereafter. Editing the ebuild is not the simplest route, it is a vastly more complex route. Instead, put the

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the portage tree and every time thereafter. Editing the

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: The change was done in the mythtv overlay (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would that be overwritten by a resync? I understood that overlay gets updated only when there

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:39:24 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: The change was done in the mythtv overlay (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: ebuilds do not update themselves, something else does. All an overlay is, is an alternate bunch of ebuilds laid out in the same format as the portage tree. Layman is nothing more than a nice bunch of scripts that automate the install,

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 02:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The MythTV overlay is not serviced by layman. Instead, it includes a script called from /etc/portage/postsync.d/ to update itself after every emerge --sync. Basically, there are two types

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: After yesterday's sync I found mythtv's overlay not able to build anymore due to missing dependency: media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-headers is no longer present in the tree. A quick search shows that it has now

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How difficult would the latter be? If the package just moved from

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:16:42 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Some explanations: I would recommend creating an own overlay so you don't get problems on sync. If multiple packages are concerned you'll have to repeat the procedure (except the overlay creation) for each of them. If the

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How difficult would the latter be? If the package just moved from

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait for upstream to update the ebuild or to