[mythtv] i've put ebuilds for cvs version of myth andassociated modules up on the web

[Simon Kenyon]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:48, Ben de Luca (bedel) wrote:
> I am familiar with gentoo, in fact I run it as well . There are ebuilds
> of a lot of dvb stuff that I use with myth on bugs.gentoo.org waiting
> for some one to look at.
>
> Plus you can remove that cruft with a make dist clean  too and by
> installing to /usr/local you cant hurt the gentoo controlled areas.
> Some of the benifts you get from just using cvs are the decreased load
> you put on the cvs servers just diffing new changes and build times are
> much smaller only building changes that make finds are necessary. Does
> the ebuild take advantage of this point?


if the local cvs copy exists it does an update, otherwise it does a checkout
i can't take the credit for that - you get that out of the box (by default)

to me the ebuilds are a way of capturing all the little configuration steps in 
one place (documentation if you like)

they also save me time

>
> On 12/05/2004, at 4:12 AM, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> > Ben de Luca (bedel) wrote:
> >> cvs update; make install
> >>
> >> its not that hard
> >
> > Gentoo is a packaging system around source files.  If you install
> > stuff then it tracks it and removes *all* that cruft at a later stage
> > when you upgrade or re-install
> >
> > So when cvs changes version it clears out all those old 0.15 files and
> > puts in the 0.16 files... make install doesn't do this.
> >
> > I have my own gentoo ebuilds for cvs and use them a lot for the
> > modules that I don't have my own local development on.  This means
> > that when I put in a new main mythtv I can just "emerge" the main
> > modules, and build my custom ones and then I'm up and running again.
> > Very convenient
> >
> > Ed W
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