MythTV for EL-6 discussion

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:45 AM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Are some packages redhat ones ?
> some fedora-epel ?
> and eg ffmpeg etc are RPM Fusion

Well, we don't actually need ffmpeg since MythTV (for better or worse)
bundles it's own, but it is currently a requirement of some of the
other packages that MythTV is dependent on, so we'll have to work
around those.


> If redhat aren't willing to update, you might be screwed. EPEL still might
> take convincing and reject (for those, would we use an internal lib instead
> to work around the problem ?, or disable that functionality in the packages,
> with a notes to say why ?).

Yes, we are running into a bit of that and since the policy of Fedora
and RPM Fusion to not provide packages that are available in RHEL we
could very well be screwed, but I'm going to keep trying. Since ATRPMS
provides an EL version of Myth I'm assuming they do not share that
policy.

I think the biggest roadblock at this point is "v4l" where the RHEL
version is quite old, however, Hans[1] is trying to appeal to the RHEL
QA gods to see if he can convince them.


> Hopefully not to much problems within RPM Fusions EL6 packages and people
> wanting to stick with a tried and true version ?

I think we'll get there eventually but I have no idea how long it will
take. I was hoping to convert my F14 MythTV box to CentOS 6 but I may
have to do one more Fedora upgrade before that's an option.

Richard

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755343#c6