[mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

[Jim Kusznir]

My gentoo installation was quite easy, actually.  I found two different 
gentoo howto's and kinda mixed and matched to make my install.  For 
example, one of the howtos suggested using the love-sources kernel 
packages, which turned out to be (imo) unnecessary and a waste of 
effort.  I basically set up a base gentoo install with the end purpose 
in mind (myth), and chose use flags and packages approprately.  The 
biggest potential quesiton/gotcha I recall was having to set a special 
envirnment variable for LIRC so it built with the correct driver.  IIRC, 
after emerging it the first time, it tells you about it in the 
post-emerge notes.

Anyway, I do highly recommend gentoo (espicially after some of the stuff 
I've heard on #myth-users about compiling and dependancy nightmares with 
Fedora).

--Jim

Robin Elvin wrote:

>Hi Jens,
>
>I thought I would share my experience of MythTV on Gentoo to help you decide.
>
>Being a Gentoo user for over a year I decided that I would build my Myth box 
>on Gentoo as I like portage and as Myth was in portage, why not?
>
>I found a Guide (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Setup_MythTV) which I thought 
>would help and off I went and completed the base install. From then on it was 
>a real struggle to get everything working. Problems ranged from having to 
>patch gentoo-dev-sources to packages failing to build because the source was 
>in the wrong place. Having said that I have wrestled Myth 0.16 onto my box, 
>from portage, and I am very happy now.
>
>So, if you are up for a challenge and you are reasonably experienced then by 
>all means go Gentoo and I can help where I can. Otherwise you might be better 
>looking at another distro. (I can't believe I suggested that!)
>
>As for your CVS vs. portage question, you can by all means mix and match but 
>remember the beauty of portage for ease of uninstalling and version control. 
>And you may have to emerge --inject some packages you have compiled from CVS 
>which another package has a dependency on to tell portage you have it 
>already.
>
>As I said, I'm running Myth happily out of portage. I'm not one for the 
>bleeding edge unless absolutely necessary and in this case it isn't.
>
>Regards
>
>--
>Rob
>
>On Thursday 06 January 2005 14:22, Jens Baumeister wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>>After doing some more research I now lean towards using Gentoo instead: 
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>>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. :-)
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>>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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