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From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:34:29
Message-Id: 4F3CBF44.4070505@st.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay by Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
1 On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
2 > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
3 >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait
4 >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How
5 >> difficult would the latter be?
6 >
7 > If the package just moved from media-tv to virtual it's easy:
8 >
9 > You should make a private overlay and copy the ebuild with the
10 > dependency there:
11 >
12 > mkdir /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/ mkdir
13 > /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/profile echo "myoverlay" >
14 > /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/profile/repo_name # Overlay is ready #
15 > add /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/ to /var/lib/layman/make.conf (using
16 > you favorite editor. If you make it the last entry it'll override
17 > other overlays.
18
19 Thanks, looks easy but I need to look into layman and overlays, I've
20 never approached that before.
21
22 In the meantime I found that another option is to auto-generate
23 ebuilds from the mythtv overlay:
24
25 http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2011-February/309883.html
26
27 raf