[pvrusb2] Mythtv follies [Was: New driver snapshot: pvrusb2-mci-20080210]

[Mike Isely]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, roger wrote:

> FYI: Just read this quickly and noted you wanting to upgrade to
> mythtv-0.21.  Mythtv-0.21 is still HARD MASKED within Gentoo's Portage
> build system.  If it were just masked by keywords to prevent bringing
> into a stable system, I'd upgrade also with minimal problems.  HOWEVER.
> Being hard-masked means something is more then likely broken and needs
> work. (ie. one or more severe bug report filed on bugs.gentoo.org)
> 
> Be informed.  Be forewarned. ;-)
> 
> For kicks, I'm going to browse bugs.gentoo.org for mythtv-0.21 related
> bug reports  ... knowing mythtv's history and Gentoo's masking history,
> something probably *is* severely broken. 
> 
> Seems just yesterday mythtv went stable with 0.21 too... but still,
> knowing mythtv's past history, something usually does break... such as
> having to rebuild mythtv's mysql database ... worse case scenario,
> installing new or from scratch!

Yeah, I've had my own checkered past trying to upgrade a mythtv 
installation.  Though I am extremely interested in upgrading, I do at 
the moment have a mostly stable 0.20.2 cluster running (or maybe to 
describe it better - I have a well understood cluster running right 
now).  I just got this going so I'm even more interested in not 
immediately breaking it!

For the curious, this cluster uses 2 diskless (read: very silent and 
stable) frontends and a dedicated back end.  I'm writing up a single big 
web page about it since others have asked for the details.  The page is 
not done yet, but a draft is up at:

http://www.isely.net/mythtv_setup.html

  -Mike


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