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From: Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:08:31
Message-Id: 20090819080815.GA17419@pacific.net.au
1 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
2 > I wrote:
3 >
4 >> Shawn Haggett writes:
5 >> > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of
6 >> > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following
7 >> > happens:
8 >> >
9 >> > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv
10 >>
11 >> [...]
12 >>
13 >> > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/environment: line
14 >> > 3924: cd:
15 >> > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0
16 >> >-2 1-fixes/mythtv: No such file or directory
17 >> > sed: can't read
18 >> > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0
19 >> >-2 1-fixes/mythtv/version.pro: No such file or directory
20 >>
21 > [...]
22 >> I just had the same problem with a fresh install of mythtv. I tried other
23 >> versions, 0.21_p19961-r2 showed the same problem, but 0.21_p20877 did
24 >> compile. So give that one a try.
25 >
26 > Now python-updater wants to rebuild mythtv, and fails to do so because of
27 > the missing version.pro. Same version which built before. The ebuild's date
28 > is from july 20th, some days before I emerged it, so there was no silent
29 > change.
30 >
31 > Strange. But for the moment I don't care, no time yet to play with mythtv.
32 >
33 > BTW, the expected .../work/mythtv-0.21_p20877/version.pro can be found in
34 > .../work/branches/release-0-21-fixes/mythtv/version.pro.
35
36 I had the same problem. What I've done is to remove ~x86 from mythtv in
37 /etc/portage/package.keywords and then rerun the python updater on the
38 older stable mythtv version (0.21_p18314-r1). The compile completed
39 successfully.
40
41 --
42 Regards,
43
44 Gregory.
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46
47 --
48 Regards,
49
50 Gregory.
51 Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power