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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:50:17
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b1003031149w1e5d1f07p3835bf996bcb5b49@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users? by Grant Edwards
1 On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Grant Edwards
2 <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has
6 >>> now been hardmasked. ??I think it's because it depends on an obsolte
7 >>> version of Qt. ??Don't get me started on the royal PITA of requiring
8 >>> that Qt be installed for a backend-only setup on a server.
9 >>>
10 >>> Since 0.21 and 0.23 is hardmasked, and mythv 0.22 is unstable on
11 >>> everything except the amd64 platform, what's an X86 user to do?
12 >
13 >> I think this is being handled badly but that sort of the way it is for
14 >> a few days anyway. Shortly 0.22 will be unmasked as stable if it isn't
15 >> already, but there are LOTS and LOTS of things we need to be careful
16 >> about when changing or the Myth database will get messed up and
17 >> possibly be unusable.
18 >
19 > I read the instructions for fixing the broken database encoding, but
20 > it appears mine is fine -- so updating to 0.22 won't be quite as
21 > painful as it might have been.  I'll still have to re-build the
22 > frontend, since 0.22 doesn't use a compatible protocol.
23
24 You are already using latin1 throughout your database? You are lucky
25 if that's true. It isn't for me but I've been running myth for about 4
26 years now.
27
28 I would suggest that if you use __any__ remote frontends and there is
29 any chance of someone else powering one up and using Myth then you
30 should first emerge -C mythtv on ALL frontend-only machines, upgrade
31 your server, emerge mythtv-0.22 on one frontend, make sure it works,
32 and then move on with any other machine.
33
34 Good luck and report back how it goes!
35
36 - Mark
37
38 <SNIP>
39 >
40 > I'll probably try upgrading to 0.22.
41 >
42 > --
43 > Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! We're going to a
44 >                                  at               new disco!
45 >                              gmail.com
46 >
47 >
48 >

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