[mythtv-users] Ongoing Fedora YUM Dependency Problems

[Andrew Davis]

Funny, just last weekend I did a clean install of FC5 and installed Myth 
and other than some issues with my remote (which are resolved now), its 
99% working and the underlying FC5 is running w/o issue. Perhaps your 
ranting is about your own installation choices. :)

Tom Greer wrote:
> This email is simply a rant...  but I need to express my frustration, 
> so I'm begging forgiveness in advance.
>
> I've been using MythTV for over a year now.  I originally tried to 
> make it work with SuSE (wasted lots of time there), until I found 
> Jarod Wilson's wonderful HOW-TO for installing Myth on Fedora Core 4.  
> (Thank you, Jarod!)  I switched to Fedora and got MythTV installed and 
> working on 2 machines.
>
> But over the year, I continually experienced problems when updating or 
> upgrading via yum.  Over and over again, yum refused to do anything 
> because of dependency problems.  Each time, I had to invest time and 
> effort to work around the problem.
>
> When I was confronted with the problem again this week, I decided to 
> upgrade to Fedora Core 5.  So I downloaded the DVD ISO, verified the 
> DVD was good and upgraded the master backend.  After the upgrade, the 
> system couldn't launch the X server.  So I tried to run "yum 
> upgrade".  It refused due to a conflict over the boot image.
>
> So I copied all my recordings to another box and dumped a backup of 
> mythconverg - and did a clean install of  Fedora Core 5.  Immediately 
> after first boot, I tried "yum upgrade".  Same problem.
>
> I'm giving up on Fedora.  Hello Ubuntu...
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