Bug 73879

Summary:	Please bring back ivtv-0.1.9-r4 - known good ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jesse Adelman <jesse>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage <media-tv>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://ivtv.sourceforge.net
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jesse Adelman 2004-12-09 01:21:37 UTC

OK, I really must bring this to the devs attention. ivtv has just been hard masked. I just went through hell upgrading to ivtv-0.2.0-rc3, only to find it breaks my xorg.conf that has both a DISPLAY for the nvidia GF4 onboard video card and the ivtv-fb on my PVR-350. ivtv-0.1.9-r4 *was* working, but I decided to just bite the bullet, since it had been just removed outright from Portage. So, now we end up with a broken ivtv, and *no way* of going back to a _known good_ ebuild. Sorry for the yelling, but this is really silly.

Please, please, bring back ivtv-0.1.9-r4 just as it was. Thank you!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Watch
2. system
3. hard hang
4. with a known good
5. configuration

Actual Results:  
Needless work, and reduced functionality.

Expected Results:  
Flexibility in choosing stable vs. bleeding edge.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2
/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /
usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control /var/www/localhost/h
tdocs//mythweb/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gen
too/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j10"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://homeserver-02/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia
 cdr chroot crypt cscope cups dga divx4linux dnd dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd 
ethereal evms2 f77 fam fastcgi ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gcj gd gd
bm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 hardenedphp imagemagick imlib java jce jdepend jikes
 joystick jp2 jpeg jsch lcd lcms libg++ libwww lirc live lm_sensors lzo lzw lzw-
tiff mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mmx mng motif mpeg mysql mythtv nagios-dns
 nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses net nls nptl offensive oggvorbis open
gl optional-tasks oro oscar oss pam pcap pcre pdflib perl php png python qt quic
ktime readline regexp rtc ruby samba sdl silc slang slp snmp soap sockets spell 
sse ssl svg svga tcpd tga theora tiff transcode truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vh
osts wmf x86 xalan xchatnogtk xchattext xerces xfs xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc
 xmms xpm xv xvid yahoo yv12 zlib"

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-09 03:40:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72956 ***

Comment 2 Gregg Casillo 2004-12-09 03:44:01 UTC

A duplicate of a WONTFIX. Now we're getting somewhere. Brilliant.

Comment 3 Jesse Adelman 2004-12-09 11:27:28 UTC

Yeah. Brilliant. Like the choice to just arbitrarily REMOVE A WORKING EBUILD to replace it with ebuilds with BROKEN SOFTWARE. For no good reason. As a result of Brian Jackson's efforts, we have now removed any stable version of this driver from Portage. For what reason? He said it doesn't work with 2.6 kernels. However, that's what many people have been using, including myself - where did he get that information?

I apologized before for asking this, but now it appears to be a valid question: in deciding on this recent course of action, are broken systems the goal? Again, I repeat, we HAD A WORKING EBUILD IN PORTAGE. Please restore it!

Comment 4 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-09 13:13:31 UTC

You have to deal with iggy, he's the maintainer. Reopen the other bug, if you need to - not this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72956 ***