[mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

[Matt Hannan]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:13, Matt Hannan wrote:
>   
>> OK, I totally rebuilt the box tonight (20 minutes with an NFS install)
>> after seeing up2date bomb out looking for FC3 packages. Something got
>> fubared, as it was set up with the $servrelease or whatever variable.
>>     
>
> Actually, that's a known bug in up2date, which has 3 hard-coded for the 
> $releasever, for some retarded reason, and nobody at Red Hat has bothered to 
> fix it yet... (You can get around it by hard-coding your yum repo files w/a 
> 4, rather than using $releasever in them).
>   
That is what I did to fix it.
>   
>> Managed to get all my updates installed before I even tried the MythTV
>> packages.
>>
>> Once I added the Jarod site to the yum repository list, I got a whole
>> host of errors on the next yum update.
>>     
>
> That ain't good...
>
>   
>> A question for Jarod:
>> Should I be able to just compile MythTV myself like we used to do back
>> in the olden days? Or, because this is ppc hardware, am I just going to
>> want to kill myself before I get it to work right?
>>
>> It is lonely out here in the world alone!
>>     
>
> You should be able to compile everything now. Those packages were built by 
> compiling on a G4 running FC4. :)
>
>   
Can you quantify "now"? Is this different than two weeks ago?

And it seems you were on vacation.
Some intrepid person seems to have found the MythMusic/PPC Endian 
problem and has submitted a bug fix to the Dev folks.
Myth (in Linux) on Mac could be a reality very soon.
Matt