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

[Christopher McEwan]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:21:13 +0000, Martin Ebourne <lists at ebourne.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:39 +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, you can have pre-built binary RPMs of current CVS, just like you can
> of any release. There's nothing magical about CVS snapshots. In fact, I
> recommend you install those pre-built RPMs of CVS snapshots from Axel's
> repo before you try building your own. It'll help get you a feel for it.
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> Ah, that is Axel's repo. ;) at-bleeding in fact. Sounds like you're
> using Axel's repo manually rather than via apt. In which case I'd get
> apt & synaptic installed soon, makes life much easier.
> 
> You'll find exactly the same source rpm's from axel's web site you
> included above - you just need to scroll the page to see the source
> rpms, which all end .src.rpm.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin.
> 
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> 
Just a quick mail to say thanks for the info in this thread. I now
have a mythtv box running the atrpms-bleeding cvs files. Next step,
proper CVS builds ;)



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