Weekly Builds go Live

As we announced back when this project was started, we were planning to provide weekly builds of the MythTV release-0-20-fixes branch.

After sorting out lots of little odds and ends regarding the build process, they should be live as of today. The builds are built by the PPA (Personal Package Archive) service of Canonical and are provided for both i386 and AMD64.

Surprise

Unannounced previously, these builds actually are available both for trunk and release-0-20-fixes. Do note however, that if you are going to use trunk, you won't be getting support from the Ubuntu MythTV team. These are provided merely as a convenience to users who would like to use them. Be sure to backup your database prior to upgrading to trunk.

Enabling the builds

Unfortunately, Canonical's service doesn't include signed packages or repositories. This means that we have to mirror the packages offsite and resign them ourselves. Axel Thimm of atrpms.net was courteous enough to provide hosting in the US for this mirror. Dave Walker is providing hosting in the UK.

For information regarding how to setup the builds, see http://mythbuntu.org/auto-builds