xbmc pvr in ports; update, please test with MythTV too! :)

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Tue Dec 6 16:25:36 UTC 2011


On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:12:59PM +0100, Mickaël Maillot wrote:
> Hi,
Hi! :)
> 
> 2011/12/6 Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 03:15:08PM +0100, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> > > On 05.12.2011 19:56, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:37:19PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > >> Hi!
> > > >>
> > > >>  So I learned there are actually releases of xbmc pvr already, which
> > > >> means nothing should stop us from committing it to ports too? :)
> > > >>
> > > >>  Now I'm wondering if this needs to be repocopied from the xbmc port
> > > >> first since it's kind of a fork...  Few patches still apply and I
> > > >> see
> > > >> libreoffice also wasn't repocopied from openoffice, so maybe not?
> > > >>
> > > >>  The patch against the xbmc port is here:
> > > >>
> > > >>    http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/xbmc-pvr-ppa-odk55.patch
> > > >>
> > > >>  (I just see I haven't added CONFLICTS_INSTALL with xbmc yet, will
> > > >> do that later.)
> > > >>
> > > >>  It still seems to work with my older xvdr addon and vdr plugin
> > > >> ports,
> > > >> but maybe I should update those again too before committing:
> > > >>
> > > >>    http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/xbmc-addon-xvdr.shar
> > > >>    http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vdr-plugin-xvdr.shar
> > > >>
> > > >>  Of course everyone is welcome to test... :)  (I only tested with
> > > >> vdr,
> > > >> not with mythtv.)
> > > >>    Juergen
> > > >>
> > > > I just updated to the latest release pvr-ppa-odk56:
> > > >
> > > >     http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/xbmc-pvr-ppa-odk56.patch
> > > >
> > > >  It would be nice if someone could verify this works with mythtv too
> > > > before I commit it...
> > >
> > > Wow this is a pretty big update. Are you sure this is the way to go
> > > with
> > > the original multimedia/xbmc port? I would prefer sticking to the
> > > upstream
> > > version with multimedia/xbmc and have such an custom branch in another
> > > port that also reflects this from the name.
> > >
> > Oh sorry, yes, I wanted to commit this as multimedia/xbmc-pvr, i.e.
> > the upstream multimedia/xbmc of course should stay in the tree.
> > I guess I didn't make that clear... :(  (But that was also the
> > reason for the question about the reopcopy.)
> >
> 
> Sorry, i don't have the time to maintain and test the pvr branch.
> two ports with conflict is good for me.
> 
 Alright, then I guess I should maintain xbmc-pvr.
> 
> >
> > > Do you know about the xbmc-devel port that he maintains on redports?
> > >
> > > http://redports.org/browser/fneufneu/multimedia
> >
> >  I haven't looked at that yet but I guess it doesn't have pvr
> > functionality that I was after?  (i.e. `Live TV' in the main menu
> > etc.)
> >
> >
> every month, i update the xbmc-devel to be ready for the 11 release (soon !)

 That is still nice! :)

 Cheers,
	Juergen


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