From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmteI-0000Dp-DE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:50:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 679F2E0CB8; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D41E0CB8 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D141D1B413C for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:49:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.896 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.896 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.364, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8fFJEoorvDY8 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:49:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97D81B4040 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmtdZ-00032X-OZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:49:37 +0100 Received: from 64.122.56.22 ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:49:37 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 64.122.56.22 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:49:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b1003030958q29637a19j937b087fdd62b4fa@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.56.22 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: a3b86333-8dbb-4465-ad4e-762372a8a6d7 X-Archives-Hash: 747ca334db5862eab555aa05ce605c3a On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has >> now been hardmasked. ??I think it's because it depends on an obsolte >> version of Qt. ??Don't get me started on the royal PITA of requiring >> that Qt be installed for a backend-only setup on a server. >> >> Since 0.21 and 0.23 is hardmasked, and mythv 0.22 is unstable on >> everything except the amd64 platform, what's an X86 user to do? > I think this is being handled badly but that sort of the way it is for > a few days anyway. Shortly 0.22 will be unmasked as stable if it isn't > already, but there are LOTS and LOTS of things we need to be careful > about when changing or the Myth database will get messed up and > possibly be unusable. I read the instructions for fixing the broken database encoding, but it appears mine is fine -- so updating to 0.22 won't be quite as painful as it might have been. I'll still have to re-build the frontend, since 0.22 doesn't use a compatible protocol. > It seems that a few devs can decide that something like qt3 is enough > to force people to move forward. I've got 5 x64/amd64 frontends plus > a backend PPC server. I'm not convinced they thought about this sort > of mixed environment issue but that's the way it is. > > I am expecting that it's going to be a bad couple of weeks.... > > I'd like to find some sort of sunset overlay for 0.21 but I haven't > looked. Let me know if you go that way. I'll probably try upgrading to 0.22. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! We're going to a at new disco! gmail.com