[mythtv-users] yum for Fedora 6?

[Nick F]

On 2/28/08, Lan Barnes <lan at falleagle.net> wrote:
>
> I'm loath to upgrade my laptop because of all te potential hassles, but
> want a MythTV front end on it. It's in FC 6.
>
> Any yum repo that might still have that?


My backend is on Fedora 8 (2.6.23.15-137.fc8) and one of my frontends (an
old laptop with a broken screen and ATI video) is on Fedora Core 6 (
2.6.20-1.2952.fc6) and they happily co-exist.  They are running the same
version of Myth though.  The laptop on FC6 can only connect to my backend
and is a dedicated frontend so I'm not *too* worried about security.
Everything 'just works' on the FC6 laptop - especially the video with no
tearing or anything so I'm loathe to update it mostly because I'm scared of
the effect a new video driver rather than the new OS/version

Two thoughts:
1. Compiling a frontend from source isn't that difficult.  There is a guide
in the wiki about doing that for Fedora which is easy and self explanatory
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora_Core

2. Upgrading Fedora versions really isn't that big a deal.  I've noticed a
lot of comments on this list that suggest Fedora is bad because of the
upgrade cycle.  My backend has gone from 6 to 7 to 8.  I had a bit of hassle
going from 6 to 7 (had to manually fix a few dependencies).  Going from 7 to
8 was trivial (it's really more akin to a big 'yum update' than installing a
new OS)

Good luck
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