[mythtv-users] RPM packages?

[Brad Sagowitz]

On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 12:07 US/Pacific, Brad Sagowitz wrote:

Well I will give it a try and let you know how it works!

Thanks!

> Jarod Wrote:
>
> "An alternative, which would also achieve much of the same goal (save
> bandwidth and time) would be to kick off an install on one machine,
> then just copy the files it downloads over to the other machines before
> starting them on their way. All the packages are stored in
> /var/cache/apt/archives. (You could also get creative w/an NFS share,
> etc, etc)."
>
>
> hmmm this is interesting... so in theory:
> if I have a mythbox already setup and working on .11,  I can first do a
> dist-upgrade to make sure the system is up2date sans mythtv.12
> have them install RH9
> have them install kickstart apt package
> have them uncomment the bleeding repository
> have them copy over the files from my /var/cache/apt/archives dir
> have them do a apt-get update
> then have them do a apt-get dist-upgrade
> then finally apt-get install myth-suite
>
> this sound about right... if it is I'm excited.

>Yep, that sounds about right to me. And setting up an apt repo looks 
>less than trivial (thank you for the info, Axel!), so this is probably 
>a route that'll result in less lost sleep and hair, though a repo might 
>be worth the effort if you anticipated doing this frequently. I think 
>I'll venture down the 'create my own repo' road here shortly...

--Jarod

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] RPM packages?


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