MythTV 0.28 status

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21715

Since it is a build error, no bump is strictly required. Anyone who built successfully does not need these patches. Anyone who needs these patches has no install of this version. Thus, a new iteration of the ebuild for this version could include patches to fix these build issues, if such patches exist. The referenced MythTV issue seems to have several commits that might be such patches. While Gentoo generally prefers following upstream over maintaining backports of fixes, it's not unreasonable to suggest carrying backports of unreleased patches until the release comes out, at which point the new release can be added.

gcyoung · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:40 pm Post subject: Mythtv-0.28-r1

I logged into bugzilla to report a bug, but found it to be already reported as bug 627276.

[Moderator edit: added [bug] tag to link to the report, for the benefit of future readers. -Hu]

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1816

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8938

gles2 should be avoided, I don't know why people enabled it in the first place.

gcyoung · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 3:49 pm Post subject: mythtv-0.28-r1

I have removed the offending USE flag 'gles2' :
[ USE="-gles2 emerge -N `qlist -I dev-qt`]
and media-tv/mythtv-0.28-r1 now compiles.

gcyoung · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:52 pm Post subject: libdvb removal

A change of processor caused me to attempt an 'emerge pve world' . The following was part of the result:

depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3509

There is a new mythtv-0.28.1-r3, and as far as I can tell that's just to peg it to USE="-dvb" and prevent the need for libdvb. You just need to fix you package.keywords entry. I did this a week ago.
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gcyoung · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:18 am Post subject: Mythtv and libdvb

Thanks Depontius. It seemed a bit odd; to 'minus dvb' when I have a digital tv card! However, looking at my settings in package use, I saw that I had mythtv set with 'dvb'. On it's removal, mythtv compiled faultlessly.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21715

Retest your setup after rebuilding with DVB hard-disabled. I'm still on -r2 (where the USE flag existed) and had a card stop working when Myth was built with USE=-dvb. Rebuilding with USE=dvb made the card work correctly. Even with USE=dvb, Myth does not rely on libdvb, but that flag does cause configure to receive a --enable-dvb parameter.

gcyoung · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 9:28 pm Post subject: mythtv-0.28.1-r4

I am now on 0.28.1-r4. Since leaving version 0.27.* I have found the program to be unstable, in that some of the keys, including "esc" do not function as the Manual states they should. It's particularly irritating that I cannot terminate a viewing, live or recording, in the middle with the esc key, as previously with the earlier version.

I'd return to 0.27.** like a shot if it were to be available, but it has been withdrawn from my profile. I found it to be quite stable and never had any problems with it.

jd2066 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 155

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 3:41 am Post subject:

I surrendered. Latest MariaDB upgrade killed my MythTV installation. Instead of investing time into resurrecting it I installed Tvheadend. My frontends are Kodi for some time now. All good.
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