Mythtv for EL6?

[Ken Dreyer]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on getting MythTV packages built for EL6 and wanted to
> share my plan in case someone has a better idea.

I tried this during the summer, and while I was able to branch and
push several deps in EPEL, I didn't get it all the way to completion:
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2011-July/009921.html

All the same, I'm interested in the effort and I'd like to assist.

>                -> ffmpeg
>                        -> libvpx
>                        -> x264

The ffmpeg / libvpx thing is going to be tricky, because several
rpmfusion devs want to stabilize on a modern ffmpeg for EL 6, but this
requires a newer libvpx. See:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2011-October/010412.html

I haven't tried lobbying the RH maintainer (I guess it would be Spot?)
for a newer libvpx. And even if it got incremented, I imagine it would
be in RHEL 6.3, which will take a while for that to trickle down
through to CentOS :)

> The good news is that all the packages rebuilt without modification so
> there should be minimal work on the maintainers end.

I had to patch MythTV's weather plugin because RHEL 6 has a
perl-Date-Manip that is too old. Upstream didn't take the patch
(http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9921) but there's nothing keeping
us from using the patch in RPM Fusion.

- Ken