[mythtv] EPEL 7 source package set

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 05/10/14 14:06, Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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.
>
> I'm not interested in getting into the repo business but if someone else
> is interested ti playing with them I can tar up the the whole thing and
> make them available online.

Well, I may have been able save you some time.

I've built ansible playbooks for setting up the buildslaves,
including centos7.

There's only 2 perl deps missing (centos7 only) from those
playbooks at this time. Curious to know if you found them

https://github.com/MythTV/ansible

Regards
Stuart Auchterlonie


>
> It requires an EPEL 7 OS (RHEL, CentOS, SL, etc, with Fedora EPEL[1]
> repository enabled) or a current Fedora release and mock[2].
>
> I would to build with mock even if you are running an EPEL distro
> because it provides mockchain[2] to chain build the packages unless you
> really want to try to document the build order.
>
> It doesn't do anything intelligent, but if a package fails to build and
> later another one succeeds, it will try again.
>
> The other advantages of mock is it builds all the packages in a chroot
> so you don't have to actually install all the development packages
> system wide.
>
> It will take a long time the first time to download and cache all the
> packages and chroot but subsequent rebuilds should be faster.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock
> [3]
> http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/mockchain-use-cases-and-examples/
>
>
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