[mythtv-users] RedHat vs Ubuntu

[John Pilkington]

On 23/09/2021 11:10, Ken Smith via mythtv-users wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I don't want to start a distro war discussion here. Just a practical 
> thread about the state of play with Myth in 2021.
> 
> 
> Since 2007 I have run various incarnations of MythTV on RedHat derived 
> systems. Various flavours of Fedora and latterly Centos. I chose RedHat 
> as I work with that in my day-job and I'm most familiar with it. The 
> MythTV rpm builds done by Axel Thimm and others have worked well so far....
> 
> With the debacle over Centos 8 last year I have been attempting to set 
> up my latest incarnation of MythTV on AlmaLinux, with is a Redhat 8 
> clone. I've attempted to use the MythTV rpm made available at RPMFusion. 
> As some may have noticed in my other recent thread, there is a MySQL / 
> MariaDB conflict when installing that version. I know I could force the 
> install but generally the installation is really messy.
> 
> I raised a Bug at RPMFusion over a week ago and have had no response at 
> all. Not even a "this is duplicate of xyz or you are doing something dumb"
> 
> For MythTV > v28 is a RedHat/RPMFusion a viable way forward?
> 
> Is anyone else currently using a RedHat derived system?
> 
> As I see it there are these options
> 
> - Somehow get the RPMFusion rpm sorted out. Not having much luck with that.
> - Find an alternative repository with a current rpm build. I do see 
> MythTV 0.27 for Fedora 19 on ATRPM's but Fedora 19 went EoL in 2015.
> - Build from source on AlmaLinux.
> - Drop RedHat and switch to Ubuntu.
> 
> I rather suspect the last option is the only real way forward.
> 
> I do appreciate the hours of voluntary effort put in my many to produce 
> a truly excellent system that is head and shoulders ahead of anything else.
> 
> Thoughts
> 
> :-) Ken
> 

TTBOMK the ATrpms builds stopped abruptly several years ago after Axel 
had moved back from Berlin to Greece.  The builds were taken over and 
extended in Australia, and are apparently continuing here:

http://scrpms.net/pub/RPMS/el8/x86_64/

I have not tried to use them recently but they might be what you want. 
Axel's builds were not necessarily always compatible with other parts of 
the RedHat system.

As I said earlier, local builds for Fedora 33 work well for me.  It 
seems likely that installable builds for el8 will eventually appear from 
RPMfusion, but Centos 8/ AlmaLinux 8/ Rocky Linux 8 are still, AIUI, in 
a state of flux.

John P