[mythtv-users] Running MythTV on CentOS

[John Pilkington]

On 06/10/14 16:50, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
> On 10/6/2014 8:43 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>> On 10/6/2014 8:32 AM, Ben Kamen wrote:
>>> I'm still on 0.25 from ATrpms, but plan on upgrading one of these days.
>>>
>>> I run the backend on a CentOS 6( 6.5 to be exact) system and then I
>>> have 2 frontends that are actually LinHES installs.
>>>
>>> They work fine.
>>>
>>> I'm also one that doesn't like having to constantly update the OS
>>> install because of EOLs on a previous version.
>>>
>>> That was the reason I switched to CentOS from Fedora. Sooo annoying.
>>>
>>>  -Ben
>>>
>>
>> So where are you planning on going for packages? The actual ATrpms
>> packages are out of date. I was planning on using Stephen Collier's
>> scrpms packages. There was one other repo compiling Myth for all the
>> various EL distros. Can't remember off the top of my head. But it was
>> doing it a bit differently and there were issues if you cross upgraded.
>>
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>
> RPMFusion only has 26.1 and nothing for CentOS 7:
>
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/x86_64/repoview/index.html
>
> Kind of a dead feel. I still think it was another repo though.
>

Yes, rpmfusion does seem rather inactive, but Richard Shaw, who has 
built their most recent Myth packages, posted this yesterday

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/576997#576997

"Out of curiosity I went to the trouble to figure out what packages are
missing for EPEL 7 and was finally able to build MythTV binary packages."

At present I have only have i686 and I believe RHEL comes in x86_64 only...