[mythtvnz] Compiling Mythtv from Ubuntu repositories

[Mark de Reeper]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen <
ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There is a patch which is supposed to fix a bug on my Myth system so
> that I can run 0.22.  The dev who has made the patch wants users to
> test the patch before it gets committed to trunk.  So I'd like to
> compile Myth with the patch and test it.
>
> Now I know most people would say run configure, make and make install
> but I have come to dislike this method as it can be hard to uninstall
> an application when done in this fashion.  So I'd like to make
> packages if possible.
>
> So what I've done is downloaded the source code from the Ubuntu
> repositories which has the Debian rules etc in it to make deb packages
> using 'apt-get source mythtv'.  I then manually edited the appropriate
> source file with the recommended patch (I gave up trying to apply it
> as a patch in /debian/patches).  I then want to run 'dpkg-buildpackage
> -us -uc -rfakeroot' but it complains about a missing dependency.  The
> dependency relates to nvidia-185-vdpau-dev.  I'm currently running
> nvidia 195 from JYA's repository.
>
> My question is, if I have the dev package installed from JYA's repo,
> can I just add the '-d' switch to my dpkg-package command to force it
> to ignore the missing dependency?  Note I have already done this and
> it seemed to produce the myth packages but I wanted to check before I
> tried installing them.
>
> Hope someone can advise.
>
> Rossco
>
>
If you are talking about #7624 then it looks like a fix from trunk has been
back-ported to .22 fixes so if you wait a couple of days it should show up
in the main build repo's. I am going to try the fix now, will let you know
if it works.


Mark
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