[mythtvnz] mythtv-status needs a manual update for MythTV 0.25

[Stephen Worthington]

I have finally moved my MythTV box to a new install of Mythbuntu 12.04
with 0.25+fixes.  I am still working on the upgrade for my mother's
MythTV box - I have yet to complete making her Hauppauge Nova TD-500
remote work with the new kernel lirc drivers.  I know how to do it
(using ir-keytables), but I am still working on adjusting all the key
mappings.  I have the /etc/rc_keymaps/hauppauge configuration working
(all the keys on the remote work and are mapped to standard KEY_xxxx
definitions), but I still have to update the ~/.lirc/mythtv and
~/.lirc/mplayer files and put in the matching key definitions in the
Mythfrontend setup.  Fortunately, my Hauppauge HVR-900R2 remote is
identical and I can do all that work on my laptop Mythbuntu 12.04
partition rather than having to work around the recording schedule on
a live MythTV box.

So far, the only thing I have found broken in the upgrade is
mythtv-status, which I rather like using, and is also used by my
storage balancing script:

  http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/balance_storage.sh

It seems that the changes to the API in 0.25 are the problem, and a
new version has been published by the author and as a Debian package,
but a new package has yet to be released for Ubuntu 12.04.  So this is
the manual upgrade procedure I used (running as root in a suitable
temporary directory):

  wget
http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/tarballs/mythtv-status-0.10.1.tar.gz
  tar xvf mythtv-status-0.10.1.tar.gz
  cd mythtv-status-0.10.1/bin
  cp -a mythtv-status /usr/bin

I then found that there was a dependency on one more Perl package I
did not have installed:

  apt-get install libsys-sigaction-perl

Depending on your particular setup, it is possible that there may be
other missing Perl dependencies.

Once the new package comes along, I believe it will install itself
over these changes without any problems, and the package should add
the dependency rule for libsys-sigaction-perl.