mythtv for rpmfsuion?

[Chris Petersen]

(sorry for breaking the thread, but I just joined the list)

> One package I know of besides the one from Axel in atrpms is
> http://devel.wilsonet.com/junk/mythtv-0.21-0.5.r14658.fc7.src.rpm
> 
> Will Tatam according to http://rpmfusion.org/WillTatam also seem to be
> interested in maintaining mythtv for rpmfusion.
> 
> Are there more people that have mythtv on the todo-list? If yes: might
> be a good idea if you guys coordinate your efforts...

Hi, I'm the semi-official spec maintainer for upstream MythTV (people in
the MythTV community probably know me best as the maintainer of MythWeb
and nuvexport).  Jarod actually based his spec on my "direct from svn"
specs, which represented an attempt to create spec-format-compliant
MythTV packages (I've been too busy/lazy to write a real build system
and bring them fully up to format compliance, or backport them to MythTV
0.20.x):

  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Mythtv-svn-rpmbuild.spec
  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Mythplugins-svn-rpmbuild.spec

I was also helping with the mythtv ticket at livna:

  http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198

When Jarod and I have talked about this in the past, we'd toyed with the
idea of jointly maintaining MythTV packages in whichever repo wanted
them.  We'll be maintaining specs in the MythTV source itself, and will
be keeping them fedora-compliant, so hopefully it will end up being very
little work for whoever ends up maintaining them in rpm fusion.

Anyway, I don't really care who ends up maintaining things, but when I
heard that this conversation was going on here (for some reason I missed
the news about rpm fusion getting created), I thought I should speak up
and offer to help.

As far as other package dependencies go, there have always been two
packages that I think should definitely be in place before MythTV would
be feasible in a non-atrpms scenario:  ivtv and lirc (kmod).  From the
sound of things, Jarod Wilson and Red Hat are working on getting the
lirc modules into the main fedora/redhat kernel itself (although I'd
personally still love to see a package so I can build some custom stuff
needed for my too-new antec media center chassis), and there has already
been discussion on this list about getting ivtv and ivtv-firmware added
here or in fedora, too.

-Chris

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