Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

[usleepless at gmail.com]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Greg Larkin <glarkin at freebsd.org> 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?
>
> I was able to get 0.21 to compile a couple of months ago, and I can
> revisit that effort to see if it makes sense to commit those changes.
> If someone else has also done the same thing, I'd like to review that
> effort, too



I have compiled and installed trunk in the last weeks, and there was hardly
anything FreeBSD specific that needed to be adjusted. It works, i have a
backend-server, a freebsd-frontend and with the same codebase a
linux(xbox)-frontend.

trunk needs QT4 btw.

regards,

usleepless