[mythtv-users] MythTV - Complete How-TO build on Fedora Core 2 docs

[knight at pogmech.net]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:38:59AM -0700, John Sturgeon wrote:
> Dex West wrote:
> 
> >--- John Sturgeon <john at sturgeonfamily.com> wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>knight at pogmech.net wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>Greets all,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>>MythTV How-To build for Fedora Core 2:
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >http://www.pogmech.net/~ral/mythtv/mythtv-fc2-build.txt
> > 
> >
> >>Rod,
> >>
> >>This is a great start.  Is there any way that you
> >>and Jarod Wilson can 
> >>come together and merge your guides?  There seems to
> >>be quite a bit of 
> >>overlap.
> >>
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> >IMHO it would be advantageous to have two separate
> >guides with different steps to the same goal..
> >
> >just my .02..
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> I'm curious about what Jarod thinks because the 'two separate guides' 
> are mainly Fedora Core 1 (with atrpms) and Fedora Core 2 (without).  
> From what I understand Jarod is working on updating his HOWTO to Fedora 
> Core 2.  I believe that Axel has already created a repository for Fedora 
> Core 2 on atrpms as well, so folks doing MythTV on Fedora Core 2 are 
> going to be well supported by  Jarod's guide and the atrpms repository.
> 
> Maybe it becomes a philosophical difference between using atrpms, or not.
> 
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As much as I like to use RPM's whenever possible, I'm also of the old school of compiling everything from scratch, if only to see how things work.  I also know some ppls OS setups can be very twisted, and troubleshooting RPM installs could be more pain than just compiling from source.  

With that said, I think there is a place for both RPM and Compile from source install guides.  The MythTV.org docs seemed to be lacking a few key details on getting the project setup, so I threw my doc out there to help contribute.

I agree what others have said about creating too many how-to docs, and it could cause more confusion as more unofficial how-to's flood the lists.  I've read through dozens upon dozens of them in different languages (thanks google translator!) just to get my setup working. 

The offical doc maintainers are welcome to merge parts of my doc to the offical one if they find it useful enough.


-Rod