[mythtv-users] Centos 7 and mythtv

Rob Verduijn rob.verduijn at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 08:30:42 UTC 2016


2016-08-21 10:21 GMT+02:00 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net>:

> On 20/08/16 10:14, John Pilkington wrote:
>
>> On 20/08/16 03:46, James Abernathy wrote:
>>
>>> Since I’m not getting anything figured out on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS as
>>> far as a stable display on my monitor/TV, I’m testing other long-term
>>> solutions for my Mythtv system.
>>>
>>> I installed Centos 7 today and got mythtv 0.27.4(v0.27-e4f65c8)
>>> working and the system and TV display are very stable.  This solution
>>> is good until 2020 for full updates and 2024 for limited updates.
>>>
>>> So my question is what about 0.28?  Is that going to be supported on
>>> Centos 7?
>>>
>>> I installed using the mythtv instructions for RHEL/Centos and then
>>> used the Mythtv Fedora instructions for configuration.  It’s a little
>>> more work than Mythbuntu, but I figured it out.  There was no mention
>>> of 0.28 in any of that information.
>>>
>>> Jim A
>>>
>>
>> I've been running 0.28-fixes under SL7 for some time, currently from a
>> 'mock' rebuild under f23 of the rpmfusion srpm.  I don't use a lot of
>> the mythtv features on offer.  The only changes I have noted are:
>>
>> - for el7: replace python2-mysql by mysql-connector-python
>> - remove frontend requirement for mesa-vdpau-drivers
>>
>> and I imagine that the second wouldn't suit everyone.
>>
>> I also have builds of 0.29-pre.  The one for f23 runs well, but I
>> haven't yet felt the need to install its equivalent on the SL7 box.
>>
>> I have no idea what might eventually be available as packages for el7,
>> but my build uses stuff from nux-dextop, which doesn't seem to be a
>> particularly active repo.
>>
>>
> You might like to know about this.  The scrpms repo (TTBOMK)
> provides packages in the ATrpms tradition and was started when ATrpms
> began to fade away.  Packages from scrpms may not be compatible with those
> from rpmfusion and epel - but rpmfusion doesn't do el7 anyway.
>
> I haven't used scrpms packages in the recent past and web searches don't
> bring up much.  ISTR it has a google group for users.  There's an automatic
> rebuild system, and it seems to be being kept up to date.
>
> http://scrpms.net/pub/RPMS/el7/x86_64/
>
>
> John P
>
>
>
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Hmmmm, could 've used those a while back.
But now I've got mythtv in a container and I'm not reverting.
Maybe I'll try to use that repo for a container and see how it works :-)

Do they keep it up to date ?

Rob
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