[gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Paul B. Henson]

Any dev thoughts on unmasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28? I don't generally
have issues with keywording unstable packages for testing and deploying
ahead of the curve, but I usually try to avoid things that are package
masked, particularly on relatively production stuff like my daily dose
of TV :).

It looks like there are three open bugs on 0.28 that might need to be
addressed before it gets unmasked:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582218

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582608

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591006


It also seems the current ebuild forces the logserver on if you're not
using systemd? The logserver is deprecated and upstream recommends
against using it, I'm currently using a local 0.27 ebuild with it
disabled using openrc, any particular reason the 0.28 ebuild forces it
on if you're using openrc?

Thanks...

Re: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:55:10 -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote:

> Any dev thoughts on unmasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28? I don't generally
> have issues with keywording unstable packages for testing and deploying
> ahead of the curve, but I usually try to avoid things that are package
> masked, particularly on relatively production stuff like my daily dose
> of TV :).

Just to say I unmasked it locally a month or so ago and have had no
issues.

Wow, time flies, it was a lot more than a month ago!

% ls -l /etc/portage/package.unmask/mythtv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 Sep 13 09:14 /etc/portage/package.unmask/mythtv


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Confucius say :
He who play in root, eventually kill tree!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson@acm.org> wrote:
> Any dev thoughts on unmasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28? I don't generally
> have issues with keywording unstable packages for testing and deploying
> ahead of the curve, but I usually try to avoid things that are package
> masked, particularly on relatively production stuff like my daily dose
> of TV :).
>
> It looks like there are three open bugs on 0.28 that might need to be
> addressed before it gets unmasked:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582218
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582608
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591006
>
>
> It also seems the current ebuild forces the logserver on if you're not
> using systemd? The logserver is deprecated and upstream recommends
> against using it, I'm currently using a local 0.27 ebuild with it
> disabled using openrc, any particular reason the 0.28 ebuild forces it
> on if you're using openrc?

It should be largely fine to use, with the sorts of caveats you've
already noted.  The fact that this was still pending for openrc was
one of the reasons it is still masked.

The other issue is that my mythtv front-end died shortly after I got
it into the tree, and I've ended up moving off of mythtv.  I don't
believe Cardoe is actively using it at the moment so it is in a bit of
limbo.  However, it almost certainly works and tweaks to improve it
are certainly welcome.  I'm sure cardoe would commit them but if not I
can try to help out with that.  I just have no way to test anything at
the moment so I don't want to fiddle with it without testing feedback
from an active user.

-- 
Rich

RE: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Paul B. Henson]

> From: Rich Freeman
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 12:14 PM
> 
> The other issue is that my mythtv front-end died shortly after I got
> it into the tree, and I've ended up moving off of mythtv.

Bummer; out of curiosity, how are you satiating your media needs now?

> limbo.  However, it almost certainly works and tweaks to improve it
> are certainly welcome.  I'm sure cardoe would commit them but if not I
> can try to help out with that.  I just have no way to test anything at
> the moment so I don't want to fiddle with it without testing feedback
> from an active user.

Cool, thanks. I'll go ahead and unmask it and upgrade over Christmas break with a local ebuild then, incorporating the three existing bug fixes and not force enabling the logserver for openrc. I actually use syslog for my logging needs with mythtv.

Re: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson@acm.org> wrote:
>> From: Rich Freeman
>> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 12:14 PM
>>
>> The other issue is that my mythtv front-end died shortly after I got
>> it into the tree, and I've ended up moving off of mythtv.
>
> Bummer; out of curiosity, how are you satiating your media needs now?
>

I ended up on Plex (after being sufficiently annoyed with a brief
trial of Kodi).  It was something I had been contemplating in any case
as my cable provider was starting to cut off non-encrypted cablecard
access to more and more channels (used to be just the premiums which I
didn't get anyway, but when I couldn't record something on the
National Geographic channel I felt they had crossed a line).    The
hardware issue just pushed me over the line.  That, and trying to get
mythtv working on a pi3 was turning into a bit of a project and I had
a dropping WAF at the time.

-- 
Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Mick]

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On Monday 05 Dec 2016 21:58:55 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson@acm.org> wrote:
> >> From: Rich Freeman
> >> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 12:14 PM
> >> 
> >> The other issue is that my mythtv front-end died shortly after I got
> >> it into the tree, and I've ended up moving off of mythtv.
> > 
> > Bummer; out of curiosity, how are you satiating your media needs now?
> 
> I ended up on Plex (after being sufficiently annoyed with a brief
> trial of Kodi).  It was something I had been contemplating in any case
> as my cable provider was starting to cut off non-encrypted cablecard
> access to more and more channels (used to be just the premiums which I
> didn't get anyway, but when I couldn't record something on the
> National Geographic channel I felt they had crossed a line).    The
> hardware issue just pushed me over the line.  That, and trying to get
> mythtv working on a pi3 was turning into a bit of a project and I had
> a dropping WAF at the time.

Out of interest, what annoyed you on Kodi?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Daniel Frey]

On 12/01/2016 12:14 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> The other issue is that my mythtv front-end died shortly after I got
> it into the tree, and I've ended up moving off of mythtv.  I don't
> believe Cardoe is actively using it at the moment so it is in a bit of
> limbo.  However, it almost certainly works and tweaks to improve it
> are certainly welcome.  I'm sure cardoe would commit them but if not I
> can try to help out with that.  I just have no way to test anything at
> the moment so I don't want to fiddle with it without testing feedback
> from an active user.
> 

I use mythtv daily (or close to it) and have separated BE/FE & multiple
frontends that I could potentially use for testing, just FYI.

I haven't tried .28 yet, though.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

[Rich Freeman]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 05 Dec 2016 21:58:55 Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson@acm.org> wrote:
>> >> From: Rich Freeman
>> >> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 12:14 PM
>> >>
>> >> The other issue is that my mythtv front-end died shortly after I got
>> >> it into the tree, and I've ended up moving off of mythtv.
>> >
>> > Bummer; out of curiosity, how are you satiating your media needs now?
>>
>> I ended up on Plex (after being sufficiently annoyed with a brief
>> trial of Kodi).  It was something I had been contemplating in any case
>> as my cable provider was starting to cut off non-encrypted cablecard
>> access to more and more channels (used to be just the premiums which I
>> didn't get anyway, but when I couldn't record something on the
>> National Geographic channel I felt they had crossed a line).    The
>> hardware issue just pushed me over the line.  That, and trying to get
>> mythtv working on a pi3 was turning into a bit of a project and I had
>> a dropping WAF at the time.
>
> Out of interest, what annoyed you on Kodi?
>

It has been a little while.  I think the UI in general was a little
annoying (not a lot of TV-based UIs that worked well from across a
living room, especially for somebody with poor vision).  However, the
biggest pain was the media scanning.  I found that Kodi had a lot of
trouble matching stuff without NFO files, and Plex seems to get it
right on the first shot 98% of the time.  That is a major help.

-- 
Rich