[mythtv-users] Re: Putting a toe in the CVS water

[Phill Edwards]

> > 2) Is the complete list of mythtv source packages from ATRPM  as follows:
> > mythweather-0.16.0.cvs20050109-60.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythvideo-0.16.0.cvs20050109-60.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythphone-0.16.0.cvs20050109-4.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythnews-0.16.0.cvs20050109-33.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythmusic-0.16.0.cvs20050109-63.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythgame-0.16.0.cvs20050109-62.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythgallery-0.16.0.cvs20050109-63.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythdvd-0.16.0.cvs20050109-44.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythbrowser-0.16.0.cvs20050109-27.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythtvsetup-0.16.0.cvs20050109-88.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythtv-themes-0.16.0.cvs20050109-88.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythtv-frontend-0.16.0.cvs20050109-88.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythtv-backend-0.16.0.cvs20050109-88.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > mythtv-0.16.0.cvs20050109-88.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > libmyth-devel-0.16.0.cvs20050109-88.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> > libmyth-0.16.0.cvs20050109-88.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
> 
> Ah, there's a bit of assumption on my part. No, those are the binary
> RPMs (the .i386 gives it away, that's the processor type). Source RPMs
> have .src.rpm at the end and should be identical no matter what platform
> it is for. (After all, it's still source at that point, so not platform
> specific.)

Oh - I thought these would be source RPMs as I got the list from
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/myth-cvs/  I'm a bit confused now as I
thought it a list of CVS RPMs would be source code.
 
> Often multiple binary packages come from one source package. eg. mythtv-
> frontend, mythtv-backend, mythtv, and libmyth* all come from the one
> mythtv.xxx.src.rpm, and will be created automatically when you build
> that.
> 
> If you've got rpm-src lines in your apt sources.list then you can
> probably 'apt-get source <package>' to get the source RPM. Mine looks
> like (for AMD64):
> 
> rpm-src http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/ fedora/3/en/x86_64 at-bleeding

So the source RPMs don't come from Axel's repo? 
 
Regards,
Phill