How to git clone latest 3.9 release?

Renato Riolino

Hi. I want to download and compile the latest 3.9 tvh release but I don't know how to do it with git.

I know I must call git checkout xxxx but I don't know what to put on xxxx.

(I need 3.9 release because on 4.* I have problems with descrambler).

Thanks

mpmc

Renato Riolino wrote:
> Hi. I want to download and compile the latest 3.9 tvh release but I don't know how to do it with git.
>
> I know I must call git checkout xxxx but I don't know what to put on xxxx.
>
> (I need 3.9 release because on 4.* I have problems with descrambler).
>

> Thanks

Find the commit hash you want to checkout on github, e.g. https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/commit/7749976fed8c1ddcfcd295da28458128849c776b

then use the hash like this..

git checkout 7749976fed8c1ddcfcd295da28458128849c776b

HTH.

Saen Acro

https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/releases/tag/v3.9

Renato Riolino

Just one more question:

Looking thru the foruns I found that the release v3.9-1539-g286509b doesn't have the descrambler problems I'm having. I tried to:

git checkout g286509b

but did not work. I tried to search on git's project page for "g286509b" to get the full hash but did not worked too.

How to get this exactly version? (btw, what is the "1539" in the version? build number?)

Thanks

Saen Acro

What is a exact descrambler problem
do you start a ticket?

Renato Riolino

I did not, I have posted on the foruns, here:

https://tvheadend.org/d/2950-solved-descramble-fails-at-random-times

Thanks

ProfYaffle

You can find the specific commit here:

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/repository/revision?utf8=%E2%9C%93&rev=2865&commit=OK

Broadly:

1. Clone the tvh repository
2. Switch to the release/4.0 branch (or stay on master, I doubt the code base is different that far back in time)
3. Checkout that specific commit as above

4. Build

The 1539 is the build number, yes. It's recently changed in terms of how it's calculated, but it's still basically a revision to the version number (e.g. number of commits in that series).

Steve Murray

I'm using 4.0, via a zip download as my production system now.

The 4.0 version seems pretty stable and few fixes seem to be needed.

What is considered a sensible "Stable" now? 4.0.x via downloads?

ProfYaffle

or 4.0.x from the PPA if you're on a Debian system. I think it's at 4.0.5 at the moment - any fixes from master (4.1.x) are backported as required.

Steve Murray

Ahh.. that's much better. Stable 4.x Repository is great :-)

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/AptRepository

Wish I'd spotted that before I went to all the pain of compiling..