[mythtv-users] Best distribution for MythTV

[jam]

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> I have wondered about creating my own packages. If building from source is really that problem free, perhaps building packages wouldn't be that hard. I have altered source packages before as a workaround, but not tried building my own from scratch.

Although building your own packages is ‘quite’ easy, you need to create a spec file and maybe rename your source dir.
Getting someones src rpm is a good intro but I find, in general, the spec files included are gravely complicated. They need not be. There are a number of rpm building tutorials.
For me I do not bother building rpm for mythtv (although I do for other packages), a simple make install does all.
James