[mythtv-users] osx-packager

[James Linder]

A few days ago I tried this with no joy

> Foolishly I heeded advice about 0.25 at EndOfife and upgraded to 0.27
> 
> I got git head, and with only a minor hicup about mysql and timezone my backend works properly on suse 12.3
> 
> For my snow leopard (mac) front end I grabbed the sourceforge dmg. The dmg that runs on mac os 10.6 uses protocol 1317 but the backend uses 1318.
> The dmg that uses 1318 is for macos 10.7+ and coredumps with missing symbols on 10.6
> 
> I have previously built Craig's MacPorts version of the frontend (0.25) so I'm sure I can do it again.
> 
> Can anybody point me at a mac build recipe please (say how source forge builds their dmg)
As an added note my linux frontend works too.

I tried osx-packager which is clearly broken.
Can anybody point me to the right path please

tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
[osx-pkg] Failed system call: " /usr/bin/tar -xzf /Users/jam/mythtv/.osx-packager/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.1.tar.gz " with error code 1
Died at ./osx-packager-qtsdk.pl line 1349.

[haycorn] /Users/jam/mythtv [527]% file /Users/jam/mythtv/.osx-packager/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.1.tar.gz
/Users/jam/mythtv/.osx-packager/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.1.tar.gz: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines

Thanks
James