[mythtv-users] new FAQ entry for 19.1 (gentoo specific)

[mojo]

i used -p1 is that gonna make a difference?
well however takes care of the site's FAQ probably knows what to put 
anyway... its mostly just the ebuild commands that they wouldnt know 
unless they are familiar with gentoo...

Achint Sandhu wrote:

> Hi Mojo,
> 
> 	Thanks for the instructions... 
> 
> 	Just one minor correction.... The patch line should be
> 	
> 	patch -p0 < mplayer-0.90rc5-mythtv-20030407.diff
> 
> Cheers,
> Achint
> 
> On July 3, 2003 03:44, mojo wrote:
> 
>>some quickie instructions for patching mplayer for gentoo users... use
>>them in the FAQ if you so desire. With all the transcoding stuff now i'm
>>not sure if this is really necessary anymore... is it?
>>
>>well here it is anyway...
>>
>>you may be thinking:
>>Q. why not download the source directly and do it that way?
>>A. because the portage tree will not recognize that it is installed and
>>when another program requests it as a dependency you will end up with
>>two copies of mplayer installed. Yes, there are ways around that but
>>they are not reccomended. Also, gentoo's ebuild likes to put the files
>>in different locations than the regular install does so for conformity
>>throughout your system it is wise to let gentoo do the installation.
>>
>>--VERY ROUGH DRAFT--
>>
>># cd /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer
>># ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild fetch
>># ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild unpack
>># cd /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-0.90_rc5/work
>>
>>Copy the patch mplayer patch available from
>>http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu:8088/~mdz/mythtv/ to the current directory.
>>
>><somebody could insert the correct wget command in here if they so
>>desired but i dont know it well enough to feel comfortable including
>>that myself>
>>
>>then
>>
>># patch -p1 < mplayer-0.90rc5-mythtv-20030407.diff
>>
>>it should respond indicating it patched 3 files.
>>now go back to the directory with the ebuild:
>>
>># cd /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer
>># ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild install
>>
>>and finally to make sure portage recognizes that you have mplayer
>>installed later on when you try and emerge something dependent on it.
>>if you exited any of the above steps with errors then do not proceed
>>with this last step.
>>
>># ebuild mplayer-0.90_rc5.ebuild qmerge
>>
>>this last line this should output:
>> >>> media-video/mplayer-0.90_rc5 merged.
>>
>>thats it!
>>
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