Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Official Gentoo MythTV Install Guide: never installs mythtv

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Grant Edwards<grante@visi.com> wrote:
> On 2009-06-12, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> I'm about to have a go at replacing my dedicated Knoppmyth
>>>> FE/BE box with a backend on my "general purpose" Gentoo
>>>> desktop and a dedicated diskless frontend on an Intel Mac
>>>> Mini.
>>>>
>>>> Towards that end I'm looking at the "Official Gentoo MythTV
>>>> Install Guide" at
>>>>
>>>>   http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/mythtv/
>>>>
>>>> I don't see anywhere in the process that mythtv is actually
>>>> installed.
>
>> That doc was last updated in 2005. It's woefully out of date.
>
> You're right -- I hadn't noticed the last modified date.
> Unfortunately, the Gentoo wiki page on MythTv has a pointer to
> that page right at the top.
>
>      http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/MythTV
>
>> Use the Gentoo specific info on the www.MythTV.org site and
>> you'll do fine.
>
> At the risk of seeming a bit dim... what Gentoo specific info?
>
> The page at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Linux_Distros#Gentoo has
> 4 links to Gentoo setup guides.  Three of them don't exist, and
> the fourth is the previously mentioned "official" install guide
> that hasn't been updated in 4 years and doesn't actually show
> mythtv being installed.

That's the wiki, not the documentation.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5

then under

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html

<QUOTE>
Gentoo

After installing MySQL you need to initialize the database by running
mysql_install_db as root.

and later...

Gentoo

    $ su
    # mysql < /usr/share/mythtv/database/mc.sql

Anyway, if you go through these docs I think there's enough for you to
get running, although the specific USE flags you might want are
probably not well documented here.

>
>> If you need help or jsut want to ask questions about flags or
>> operation write back.
>
> It's just that I would have sworn I'd seen a pretty complete
> Gentoo MythTv HOWTO at some point, but I sure can't find it
> now.  [I was primarily interested in hints for doing a
> "backend-only" install.] Anyway, I was surprised there didn't
> seem to be a HOWTO.  I've done some fairly obscure stuff on
> Gentoo, and I think this is the first time I've wanted to do
> something and haven't found a detail HOWTO document.

I think that was all lost when the Gentoo WIki got wiped out. I
remember what you are talking about but I don't remember seeing it in
the last year.

Hope this helps,
Mark