[mythtv-users] Running MythTV on CentOS

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/5/2014 4:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> What exactly do you two mean by this? MythTV is the target or CentOS is the
>> target? Of what?
> CentOS aims to be a clone of RHEL for the most part.  The target
> market for RHEL is not people running DVRs.  That was all I was
> saying.

Cento *is* a direct clone of Red Hat. It's a direct recompile of the Red 
Had sources minus the copyrighted material like logos and stuff that 
doesn't apply like Red Hat Network.

>> I happen to host MythTV on CentOS. Finding the right repo for packages has
>> been a problem. It was ATrpms. And now that some of the users have stepped
>> up it still is.
> That was my only point.  The folks at RedHat don't make it a priority
> to have the latest MythTV builds in their repository.  If somebody
> else is creating decent packages for it by all means using them.

Uh, Red Hat doesn't have *any* Myth material. I've always had to go to 
third party repos.

>> Why does it sound like the stability of Red Hat/CentOS is a *bad* thing for
>> you? It sounds like you want to target the ever shifting sands of something
>> like Fedora. A distro that demands updating once or twice a year.
> I'm not knocking CentOS at all here.  If I was running a webserver it
> would probably make perfect sense.
>
> However, when you look at something like MythTV that starts to break
> down.  If I'm running some ITX front-end with an Atom processor then I
> need hardware video support if I want it to work at all.  That means
> bleeding-edge Nvidia drivers unless I wait until they're practically
> on clearance to buy the thing.  If the only application on it is
> MythTV then it would be nice if MythTV were in the distro's main
> repository.  And so on.  This just isn't RedHat's target market.
>
> That is a bit less of an issue for the back-end, but if you want to
> run CentOS on your back-end and not your front-end then you're going
> to be constantly trying to keep the two in sync.  MythTV does not
> guarantee compatibility between builds, and the database schema
> version changes all the time.
>
>

Changing subject to keep Gary happy. :)

I'm not going to try to argue this. I'm not a dev and they get to do 
what they want to do. I, the user, just have to figure it out. I just 
want some stable software that I don't have to update all the time.

Your point is well taken regarding frontends and backends. I would never 
consider trying to run different versions of Myth. Let alone different 
distros. *That* would be chaos.

27.3 *has* been compiled and packaged for CentOS 6, so I'm happy:

http://scrpms.net/pub/RPMS/el6/