[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out

[Dave Badia]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Rich Freeman
<r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists at xunil.at>
> wrote:
> > Am 02.10.2013 03:09, schrieb Dave Badia:
> >
> >> I have 3 diskless machines using NFS/PXE boot on gentoo.  I pretty much
> >> followed the directions here:
> >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Diskless_nodes.  The directions are long
> >> but are very thorough.  My master backend is the
> >> NFS host which has BTRFS as it's main filesystem.  Using BTRFS snapshots
> >> makes it very easy to backup the diskless nodes which are just
> directories
> >> on the MBE.
> >
> > nice idea, yes.
> >
> > Would you share your FE-image maybe? I am looking for something I can
> > simply untar and boot quickly as I am quite busy these days and can't
> > really find the time and the brains to build up my own gentoo-PXE-image
> > ... and I would love to upgrade to 0.27 asap (but that wouldn't be much
> > fun without a frontend).
>
> My config sounds almost identical - btrfs-based master backend with
> front-end on nfs root.
>
> For updates to the front-end I usually just do them via chroot from
> the server - way faster than doing builds on an Atom.
>

Do you cross compile for the Atom?  I haven't had much luck doing the
chroot compiles, even for systems with the same architecture.  Perhaps I
need to do a better job of keeping the packages in sync across the FEs.


> I might see if I can write things up in a blog entry (if so it will go
> on planet gentoo).  The biggest pain wasn't getting PXE+NFS working
> (no harder than setting up minimyth really), but fully building the
> front-end from scratch (lirc, X11 config for HDMI out, etc).  I recall
> also having artifact problems with decoding video and such - I think
> mythtv 0.26 fixed that for me (newer version of bundled ffmpeg -
> videos would play fine with Gentoo's ffmpeg or mplayer, but not with
> the mythtv-bundled mythffmpeg).
>
> Oh, one thing I did do is just test the PXE+NFS from a diskless VM
> before moving to the actual front-end, so that I could take my time
> without messing up the TV.  That doesn't help with some of the X11 and
> lirc work, but you can get pretty far on a VM.
>
> If anything working with NFS is much simpler - the kernel is the only
> thing that really needs special handling (and that is just a matter of
> replacing a file on the tftp server) - otherwise it is just like
> updating a chroot.
>

Completely agree.


>
> Rich
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