[mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Jan 18 01:23:39 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:13, Matt Hannan wrote:
> OK, I totally rebuilt the box tonight (20 minutes with an NFS install)
> after seeing up2date bomb out looking for FC3 packages. Something got
> fubared, as it was set up with the $servrelease or whatever variable.

Actually, that's a known bug in up2date, which has 3 hard-coded for the 
$releasever, for some retarded reason, and nobody at Red Hat has bothered to 
fix it yet... (You can get around it by hard-coding your yum repo files w/a 
4, rather than using $releasever in them).

> Managed to get all my updates installed before I even tried the MythTV
> packages.
>
> Once I added the Jarod site to the yum repository list, I got a whole
> host of errors on the next yum update.

That ain't good...

> A question for Jarod:
> Should I be able to just compile MythTV myself like we used to do back
> in the olden days? Or, because this is ppc hardware, am I just going to
> want to kill myself before I get it to work right?
>
> It is lonely out here in the world alone!

You should be able to compile everything now. Those packages were built by 
compiling on a G4 running FC4. :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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