Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Tue, March 10, 2009 10:43 pm, Greg Larkin wrote:
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> Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
>> On Fri, January 23, 2009 2:36 am, Greg Larkin wrote:
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>>> Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
>>>> On Thu, January 15, 2009 11:35 pm, Greg Larkin wrote:
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>>>>> Greg Larkin wrote:
>>>>>> Mark Linimon wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:57:58PM +0000, Craig Butler wrote:
>>>>>>>> Any updates on the 0.21 version of Mythtv ??  I see that we are
>>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>> 0.20 in ports
>>>>>>> If there's progress on 0.21, someone needs to say so -- the 0.20
>>>>>>> version is already past its deletion date since it has been broken
>>>>>>> for so long.  I'll make the commit to change the date if there is.
>>>>>>> mcl
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am currently working on the following MythTV-related PRs and plan
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> close them soon:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126343
>>>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/127856
>>>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/127857
>>>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/128419
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please don't delete multimedia/mythtv yet.  The last PR above
>>>>>> contains
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> patch to upgrade it to 0.21.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Greg
>>>>> Hello all of you MythTV supporters with the collective patience of
>>>>> the
>>>>> universe!
>>>>>
>>>>> I recently committed mythtv-frontend (PR 127856) and mythtv-themes
>>>>> (PR
>>>>> 127857), and please let me know if you see any problems with the
>>>>> updates.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is still some work to be done on multimedia/mythtv, and I'm
>>>>> tackling that next.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again for your patience and feedback!
>>>>>
>>>> Yiiha, great to hear that :o) I will update and test as soon as time
>>>> permits.
>>>>
>>>> Do you plan to update multimedia/mythtv to 0.21 or just fix it and
>>>> leave
>>>> it at 0.20? Because in the later case there is at least one open
>>>> compile
>>>> problem from Torfinn Ingolfsen that hasn't been tackled down yet.
>>>>
>>> Hi Bernhard,
>>>
>>> I do plan to update multimedia/mythtv to 0.21, if at possible.  This PR
>>> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/128419) is a patch to
>>> update 0.20, but is that the one that you're saying still has a compile
>>> problem?
>>
>> That is good news and probably the better way to go. Yes that compile
>> problem occured with that patch but was specific to 0.20 so you can
>> forget
>> about it and just move on.
>>
>>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just want to let you know that I've recently committed the MythTV 0.21
> update to the ports tree: http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/mythtv/
>
> Thanks for everyone's help along the way, and let me know if you into
> any problems with the new version of the application.
>

Great work and thanks to all of you! I've just seen the pkg-descr file and
the middle paragraph is now outdated i think ...

>The current distributed version of MythTV
>(http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=1)
>is out of date for just about all platforms.  It is also protocol
>incompatible with the "bug fix" version, which is maintained under
>subversion, rather like the FreeBSD -STABLE branch.  This port is a
>snapshot of svn version 13053, dated 15 March 2007.  Later versions of
>this tree are no longer compatible with this port.


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Bernhard Fröhlich
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