[mythtv-users] OT: Fedora repos?

[Niels Dybdahl]

> So what does one do?  These people on the fedora sites seem to say that
> atrpms is incompatible with the *core* fedora distribution and "is not
> advised."  However, the atrpms site seems to indicate the contrary, and
> that is is compatible with RPMForge and the like.  Furthermore, Axel
> maintains that the only proper way to update myth is to have the entire
> repository enabled in yum.
>
> What have people been doing?  Is enabling atrpms entirely not as
> dangerous as people make it out to be, or should I just forget atrpms
> and build from source?

I am maintaining two MythTV systems (my own and my parents), both
consist of a combined frontend/backend and an additional frontend.
All of them except one frontend have atrpms permanently enabled and I
do enable the whole atrpms on that frontend when I need to upgrade it.
I have not yet had a single problem with the atrpms repository. If you
trust the MythTV RPMs from atrpms, then I can not see any reason not
to trust the whole atrpms. If you do not trust the MythTV RPMs from
atrpms, then I think you should build your whole system from source.
Neither way is guaranteed to be troublefree, but I definitely prefer
using atrpms.

Niels Dybdahl