[mythtv-users] Mythtv on CentOS 7

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 14/12/15 11:39, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 14/12/15 11:01, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
>> On 11/12/15 19:06, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Michael A Weber <mweberjunk01 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:mweberjunk01 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hey, users!
>>>
>>>      I’m considering upgrading my Mythtv backend to CentOS 7 since there
>>>      are some other features it has that I need over CentOS 6.
>>>
>>>      I have read the page over at mythtv.org <http://mythtv.org> that
>>>      says, basically, “it works well.”  Aside of that, does anyone have
>>>      any “gotchas” to share?  Or, is 0.28 of Mythtv close enough on the
>>>      horizon that I should wait for its release before upgrading
>>>
>>>
>>> The biggest issue is that the version of QT is too old for 0.27 and the
>>> QT5 from EPEL is not compatible with 0.27.
>>>
>>> As far as RPM Fusion goes, until the infrastructure upgrades are
>>> complete, I haven't been working on it. But one it's done, and 0.28 is
>>> released I plan on supporting EL 7.
>>>
>>
>> I think you are referring to Centos 6 here.
>>
>> Centos 7 has all the required Qt4 / Qt5 libraries to build MythTV 0.27
>> and 0.28.
>>
>> With the help of rpmfusion and epel, you will have pretty much
>> everything you need.
>>
>> For the benefit of everyone there are ansible cookbooks already done
>> that support Centos.
>>
>> https://github.com/MythTV/ansible
>>
>> Install ansible and git packages, clone the above repo, then run as root
>>
>> # ansible-playbook -i hosts qt4.yml
>> # ansible-playbook -i hosts qt5.yml
>>
>> and everything you need gets installed :)
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Stuart Auchterlonie
>> MythTV Developer
>>
> Stuart:  I haven't tried a build of master-with-qt5 on my main box
> running SL7, but when I tried building packages under f21, having run
> ansible, it just didn't work.  I haven't tried it yet with f22.  Do you
> use a specfile, or config/make/install?  And if the latter, how does it
> interact with the 'normal' package management of the rest of the system?
> 
> I appreciate that you're busy, but I'd like to know!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 

Hi John,

I've not ever tried building rpm package(s) as I only ever build from
source. Do you have a "normal" specfile somewhere that you build from
and I can try it on the build slave and see what fails?


Regards
Stuart