mythtv 0.28

[John Pilkington]

On 27/06/16 09:31, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 26/06/16 14:15, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 26/06/16 12:15, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> On 25/06/16 16:44, Michael wrote:
>>>> On 05/16/2016 03:42 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Shawn Asmussen
>>>>> <<mailto:shawn.asmussen at gmail.com>shawn.asmussen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Are packages for the most recent version of mythtv (0.28)
>>>>>     something that is in the pipeline?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I was just waiting for things to calm down a bit. When you're in
>>>>> a position to automatically upgrade people you have to be a bit more
>>>>> conservative :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have one user that tried test packages and is reporting some crashes
>>>>> on startup, but if it makes it all the way up it seems OK, still
>>>>> trying to see if it's related to my packaging, mythtv itself, or his
>>>>> setup.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Richard,
>>>>
>>>> I am getting ready to update to Fedora 24 and I noticed that the mythtv
>>>> packages are there, but the mythweb rpm and srpm aren't on the mirrors.
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've just built a set of rpms on my Scientific Linux 7.2 (el7) box using
>>>   mythtv-0.28-3.fc24.src.rpm  The only change made was to replace
>>> python2-mysql by mysql-connector-python in the specfile.  I'll try
>>> installing them over a homebuild of 0.28-pre-3689 when it becomes
>>> convenient.
>>>
>>> Other repos in use are epel, elrepo, nux-dextop...
>>>
>>> Are builds for fc22 and/or fc23 in the pipeline?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John P
>>>
>>
>> For info: Install failed:
>>
>> RPMS]# yum install  noarch/*0.28-3*.rpm x86_64/*0.28-3*.rpm
>>
>> Error: Package: mythtv-0.28-3.el7.x86_64 (/mythtv-0.28-3.el7.x86_64)
>>             Requires: mythweb = 0.28
>> Error: Package: mythtv-frontend-0.28-3.el7.x86_64
>> (/mythtv-frontend-0.28-3.el7.x86_64)
>>             Requires: mesa-vdpau-drivers
>>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>
>> ISTR that it's only the metapackage that needs mythweb, which I don't
>> use.
>>
>> At present I haven't found an el7 replacement for mesa-vdpau-drivers;
>> and I don't have vdpau-capable hardware...
>>
>> --skip-broken proposes to skip everything except mythtv-debuginfo
>>
>
> I now have an el7 build installed, with no need to update the DB from my
> 0.28-pre build.  I had to rename the new 'mythtv' package and
> yum erase the earlier version, then use the yum install line above.
>
> My earlier version had been built with MySQL-python and without
> mesa-vdpau-drivers, and had been working for several months; my new
> install of mysql-connector-python might not have been essential, and I
> don't know if it is actually in use.
>
> I have commented out the mesa-vdpau-drivers 'requires'; other people
> might not want to do that, but there's an el7 BZ:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297276
>
> I know (believe?) that rpmfusion doesn't do el7, but this seemed the
> most appropriate place to post.
>
> John P
>

and since my posts above were largely about trying to satisfy the 
dependencies set out in the fc24 spec on an el7 box, I perhaps ought to 
say that before my earlier successful builds (0.28-pre) I had run the 
MythTV ansible playbook, which is supposed to automate that process...
although it perhaps didn't identify the useful repos.