[mythtv] About packaging CVS versions

Dwight Hubbard dhubbard at dwightandamy.com
Thu Jun 12 02:17:40 EDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 11:49, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> Well, I modified the script to default to downloading and installing the
> .8 stable release for now.  The CVS download and build code is still there
> but requires a one line change to re-enable it.

It now installs 0.9.1 instead of .8

> I'm wondering if I add an option to build the CVS version with debugging
> enabled would that address Isaac's concerns?  I.E. in the event of a
> problem the user can rerun setup and enable debugging during the build.

Is this viable?

> There's still quite a bit of work to do though, specific problems are:
> 
> I recently added some code that is Distribution specific, currently I only
> have the code for Redhat 9 which is what I'm building the setup stuff on. 
> It should be fairly easy to modify it for Redhat 8.0 and Debian though.

It currently seems to work on Redhat 9, but should work on 8.0 if
apt-rpm is installed.  It may work on Debian but I don't have any
systems to test with.

> It currently blows away the database and rebuilds it each time.

I would love a good sugestion on how to do this differently and make it
work irregardless of what mythtv version the user had before (I.E. I
want it to work if I go from current CVS to an older version and back)

> It doesn't build some of the stuff I don't use, in particular lirc (I have
> the ATI USB remote) and MythWeb.

lirc and other hardware still needs to be configured manually.  I'm
hoping to add some code to the installer to walk the user through
setting up common hardware.
 
> It's probably missing building a couple of the prerequsite packages since
> I already have them installed and so don't notice the issue.  I'm nearly
> positive it needs additional code to install and configure xmltv.

I've gone though the installation doc and as far as I can tell the
installer does all the steps to get the software compiled and
installed.  With the exception of setting up hardware.

> It currently assumes it's setting up a combined frontend/backend server.
> It currently assumes a direct connection to the internet (doesn't work
> with proxy servers)

Maybe someday

> The current version is up on http://mythtv.dwightandamy.com

The invalid links on the page have been fixed as well.



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