[mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

[Jim Kusznir]

I actually made my own myth ebuilds based on cvs snapshots.  I called it 
"myth-0.17_alpha1".  It actually was quite easy, and this way portage 
knows all about it.  When a new formal release comes out, portage can 
easily deal with it for me.

Learning a bit about portage and making ebuilds took me about half a 
day; but after that I could crank out the ebuilds for each subpart in 
about 3 minutes each.  If you're interested, I could send some 
instructions.  Keep in mind that I'm still a "gentoo developer-wannabe" 
(aka very new to making ebuilds), so this is basically the minimum 
required to work; not really the best it can be.

--Jim

Baudouin, Andrew wrote:

>If you manually compiled a CVS version of any software package, portage
>would not know that you had it installed.  Trying to emerge a different
>version of mythtv from the portage tree, for example, would stomp all over
>your CVS installation.
>
>You'd just have to do a "note to self" type of thing that you had CVS mythtv
>installed and not to try to emerge it.
>
>
>
>Andrew Baudouin
>Applications Programmer
>AWC, Incorporated
>andrew.baudouin at awc-inc.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jens Baumeister [mailto:jens.baumeister at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:22 AM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS
>
>Hi,
>
>a couple of days ago, I asked about which Fedora Core version to use
>with MythTV and DVB and promptly received an answer. Thanks for that.
>
>After doing some more research I now lean towards using Gentoo instead: 
>
>http://tinyurl.com/4lxdb makes it sound a bit easier to look out for
>all the dependencies than doing everything by hand and the install
>guide for Gentoo - while a bit intimidating - looks like the right mix
>of geekiness and ease-of-use for me. :-)
>
>I'm wondering, however, how well Gentoo plays with CVS versions: If I
>decide later on to grab a CVS version of MyhTV, would I be able to go
>back to using one from the portage tree if I wanted to, or would that
>be as difficult as trying to mix installs from most of the binary
>package managers with manual compiles?
>
>Thanks any insight.
>
>Jens
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