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

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

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 It's woefully out of date.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.

> 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.

-- 
Grant