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

[Juergen Lock]

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.)

> 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.)

 Thanx! :)
	Juergen