Re: [gentoo-user] Stable MythTV removed from portage?

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 7/2/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 18:14, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > I have mythtv-0.18.1-r1 installed. Now it appears that it's not
> > > even an option anymore? What happened to Myth?
> > >
> > > I do not want to update to 0.19 as it means work on 5 machines that
> > > I don't want to undertake.
> >
> > You can grab the ebuild and it's patches from cvs [1] and place them in an
> > overlay.
> >
> > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-tv/mythtv/
> >
> > --
> > Bo Andresen
>
> Bo,
>    Thanks for the pointer. I suppose I'll have to do this. Bummer....
>
>    Why was 0.18 removed from portage? Has there been a thread on that
> subject I missed as I'm not reading this list very carefully right
> now. 0.18 was in portage for over a year I think. Why not mark it
> stable or leave it in the group of masked ebuilds and let us make a
> choice?
>
>    I thought Gentoo was about choice. Who ever is maintaining this has
> taken choice away from me and replaced it with more work. Bummer.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>

It is disappointing to find out that MYthTV-0.18-x was removed for
reasons that some folks feel were possibly invalid. Apparently (IF I
UNDERSTAND THIS - I probably don't...) there was a security bug found
in ffmpeg and (I don't know why) a decision was taken to remove
revisions of applications that used ffmpeg. However on my machine
attempting emerge -pve mythtv-0.18-X doesn't indicate that it would
have emerged ffmpeg, so what is the problem? Why remove this version?

Maybe someone here knows the history? I couldn't get it from the bugs
I looked at. If MythTV doesn't use ffmpeg then is the issue that they
copied some bad code instead of linking in the bad library?

Again, it seems to make little sense to me.

- Mark

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