[mythtv-users] Fedora 16 for mythTV

[Gabe Rubin]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All in all, the upgrade to Fedora 16 was not smooth.  I am still
>> struggling with the lirc issue but can work around it for the time
>> being.  These upgrades really make me consider moving to a centOS or
>> something with a much longer upgrade horizon.  I say that each time
>> though and stick with Fedora because I am scared of making that big of
>> a change.
>
> I believe that atrpms already has EL6 packages? Also, I'm working on
> the needed packages for RPM Fusion so you won't have to build packages
> yourself anymore.

I know that atrpms has all the needed packages, and maintenance would
not be an issue.  My concern is transitioning from fedora to a
different (albeit similar system).  I would not want to do a fresh
reinstall because I have so many configurations and tweaks on my
system that it would take a long time to recreate.