[mythtv-users] Beware, I think the avenard trunk repo (at least for jaunty) is broken right now

[Kevin Bailey]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:14:20PM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> 
> This is related to this:
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8039
> 
> MythTV doesnt compile on Ubuntu 8.10 right now.
> 
> A little background explanation on how the build system works.
> 
> By default the build system for trunk compiles for Ubuntu 8.10
> (Intrepid), 9.04 (Jaunty) and 9.10 (Karmic) for both AMD64 and i386
> processors.
> Packages are compiled every day unless there has been no change in the
> SVN repository since the last build, with one exception: if mythtv has
> been updated, then the mythplugins are automatically recompiled to
> catter for any API changes.
> 
> Once all packages are compiled, the system check if the packages were
> actually built for all platforms ; if not they are all discarded and I
> get an email with the error.
> 
> It's all automated.
> 
> As mythtv doesn't build on ubuntu intreprid, all packages were
> discarded, normally mythplugins shouldn't have built, but for some
> reasons they did (I'm puzzled why though, just checked the code and
> it's fine).
> 
> i did get the email on the 7th, but thought it was just a temporary
> error until I saw it again yesterday.
> 
> As a temporary fix, I've removed Ubuntu Intreprid from the target
> list, so it's now built only for Jaunty and Karmic.
> 
> Remember, that this is TRUNK.. It's build daily automatically...
> So the status on how well it works isn't guaranteed to say the least...
> 
> If you don't want to worry about that kind of stuff, run fixes (release).
> 
> Still, I fixed the issue after less than 36 hours ... That's better
> tech support than you would get from most software supplier :)
> And it's free

Here, here.

JYA, I'm curious, do you use some sort of pbuilder
to build for all these platforms ? If so, do you
favor chroot or UML ?