On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Grant Edwards<[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-06-12, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> I'm about to have a go at replacing my dedicated Knoppmyth >>>> FE/BE box with a backend on my "general purpose" Gentoo >>>> desktop and a dedicated diskless frontend on an Intel Mac >>>> Mini. >>>> >>>> Towards that end I'm looking at the "Official Gentoo MythTV >>>> Install Guide" at >>>> >>>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/mythtv/ >>>> >>>> I don't see anywhere in the process that mythtv is actually >>>> installed. > >> That doc was last updated in 2005. It's woefully out of date. > > You're right -- I hadn't noticed the last modified date. > Unfortunately, the Gentoo wiki page on MythTv has a pointer to > that page right at the top. > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/MythTV > >> Use the Gentoo specific info on the www.MythTV.org site and >> you'll do fine. > > At the risk of seeming a bit dim... what Gentoo specific info? > > The page at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Linux_Distros#Gentoo has > 4 links to Gentoo setup guides. Three of them don't exist, and > the fourth is the previously mentioned "official" install guide > that hasn't been updated in 4 years and doesn't actually show > mythtv being installed.
That's the wiki, not the documentation. http://www.mythtv.org/docs/ http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5 then under http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html <QUOTE> Gentoo After installing MySQL you need to initialize the database by running mysql_install_db as root. and later... Gentoo $ su # mysql < /usr/share/mythtv/database/mc.sql Anyway, if you go through these docs I think there's enough for you to get running, although the specific USE flags you might want are probably not well documented here. > >> If you need help or jsut want to ask questions about flags or >> operation write back. > > It's just that I would have sworn I'd seen a pretty complete > Gentoo MythTv HOWTO at some point, but I sure can't find it > now. [I was primarily interested in hints for doing a > "backend-only" install.] Anyway, I was surprised there didn't > seem to be a HOWTO. I've done some fairly obscure stuff on > Gentoo, and I think this is the first time I've wanted to do > something and haven't found a detail HOWTO document. I think that was all lost when the Gentoo WIki got wiped out. I remember what you are talking about but I don't remember seeing it in the last year. Hope this helps, Mark
