It's slightly complicated, but definitely still doable, more so than just installing from tarballs.
The short version is that you'll want to create a "portage overlay" where you copy ebuilds that you download yourself. You set up portage to look in this local overlay first, and then all you have to do is type "emerge mythtv-cvs" (or whatever your custom ebuild names are) to install them. bugs.gentoo.org is a good place to find bleeding edge ebuilds: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66337 (for mythtv-cvs ebuilds) forums.gentoo.org is a good place to search for how to set up a portage overlay. It's not much more complicated than making a /usr/local/portage directory and putting some files in it, but you'll want to read up on it before attempting it - Jeff On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:23:44 -0800, Richard Sears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan, > > How do I instruct emerge to use the CVS instead of the ebuild on the system..? > > I have never done that! > > Thanks > > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:20:32 -0800, Jim Kusznir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan Littlejohn wrote: > > > > >There are good guides for Gentoo installs here: > > > > > >http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_MythTV > > >http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html > > > > > >Includes use flags and window manager opinions. > > > > > >for the 15 min install there is Jarod's Guide for Red Hat, lol. > > > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php > > > > > > > > > > > I run 2 gentoo myth systems; my first one was gentoo from the beginning, > > and it worked great. My second one was for my father-in-law, and he was > > scared of the compiling, so he pressured me to go the fedora route. I > > tried. After 3 days following the "15 minute procedure" in jarod's > > guide, I gave up and switched to gentoo. Started the install, went to > > bed, and had the system functioning by lunch. > > > > I tend to make use of both of the gentoo references above; they both are > > a little different, and by reading them both, you can tweak the system > > more to your needs. > > > > With respect to window manager, on my first system I used flexbox (or > > something like that; I don't remember anymore). I might even suggest > > the generic one that comes with X. I like the gentoo ideal: only what > > you need, and no more. So for a dedicated myth system, both gnome and > > kde are way excessive. With that said, on my second myth system, I > > installed a full kde and an IR keyboard/mouse. So I can do some basic > > computing with the system as well as myth. In the end, it comes down to > > what you were planning on doing with it. > > > > I now have a PVR-500 (requires the latest ivtv, not currently in an > > ebuild and often requiring some custom installing), so I install ivtv by > > hand; everything else I do through ebuilds. It really isn't that hard > > to make an upgraded ebuild if there's no current ebuild available. I > > would highly recommend it. > > > > If you search around, there are actually ebuilds for the CVS version. I > > think these make it even easier for gentoo users to use CVS than any > > other dist. out there: all you do is re-emerge myth and its components. > > The ebuilds will automatically check out the latest CVS snapshot, > > compile, and install all without intervention. It usually works pretty > > well, too. > > > > I am definately sold on gentoo as a platform for mythtv; I think it fits > > better than all the precompiled packaged systems. > > > > --Jim > > > > >Dan > > > > > > > > >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:26:03 -0800, Richard J. Sears > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Richard - > > >> > > >>Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I had a few more > > >>problems with Asterisk and the addon's :-) > > >> > > >>Couple of quick questions. First, would you share your make.conf USE > > >>flags with me so I get them right the first time and second, Did you use > > >>KDE or Gnome..? > > >> > > >>Thanks Again !! > > >> > > >>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:11:51 +0100 > > >>Rickard Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>>Richard J. Sears wrote: > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>>I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did > > >>>>you use emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and > > >>>>compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..? > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>I used the CVS just before 0.17 came out and the ebuilds when it was > > >>>released. The ebuilds were a no-brainer to setup. There are some USE > > >>>flags that you need for stuff like nuvexport and ffmpeg that I haven't > > >>>seen documented anywhere (aac, threads and another that I don't recall > > >>>right now), but other than that, no problems. > > >>> > > >>>Most other sundry files are in portage - it's possible that there's > > >>>something missing but I haven't found anything. > > >>> > > >>>There's been no real need for any config file management issues (MythTV > > >>>has just one config file AFAIK and you normally edit it through > > >>>mythsetup, the rest is in the database). > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
