From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 13:40:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23FA9106564A for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE658FC22 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m9UDe3iH014505 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m9UDe3oB014504; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:03 GMT Message-Id: <200810301340.m9UDe3oB014504@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= Cc: Subject: Re: ports/127856: [NEW PORT] multimedia/mythtv-frontend: MythTV is a homebrew PVR project X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:04 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/127856; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= To: "Max Brazhnikov" Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, decke@bluelife.at Subject: Re: ports/127856: [NEW PORT] multimedia/mythtv-frontend: MythTV is a homebrew PVR project Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:36:31 +0100 (CET) On Thu, October 30, 2008 12:07 pm, Max Brazhnikov wrote: > Hi Bernhard, > > There is multimedia/mythtv in ports already. Is your port something new or > it should be considered as update for mythtv? short answer: Yes, that port has advantages over multimedia/mythtv but cannot be considered a 1:1 replacement so i have created a seperate PR ports/128419 which fixes the multimedia/mythtv port instead. long answer: The multimedia/mythtv 0.20 port has a lot of problems but it also builds a working backend which is it's only advantage over the mythtv-frontend port. But the multimedia/mythtv port uses a patchset which makes it protocol incompatible to the official 0.20 version so AFAIK you can ONLY use it with a matching FreeBSD mythtv 0.20 backend. That's very hard to setup because of lacking driver support in FreeBSD and so it's nearly useless nowadays if you have no supported card or use a Linux box as your mythtv backend. With this port we have the possibility to use FreeBSD as a Frontend and your linux distro of choice as Mythtv Backend. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/