[mythtv-users] VPDAU enabled mythtv repository for Fedora 10?

William william_munson at comcast.net
Thu Apr 23 01:54:25 UTC 2009


Bill Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard 
> <jyavenard at gmail.com <mailto:jyavenard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     2009/4/22 William <william_munson at comcast.net
>     <mailto:william_munson at comcast.net>>:
>     > I have found a repo for Ubuntu but so far no luck finding a repo
>     for F10.
>     > Does one exist?
>
>     Yes.
>
>     Check ATrpms.net
>
>     They have a package with VDPAU ; called Bijou, maintained by a regular
>     poster here
>
>     >
>     > If no repo exists, what is the recommended way to convert the
>     Ubuntu .debs
>     > to Fedora compatible rpms? I am thinking about switching to
>     MythDora to get
>     > the new, more reliable, firewire stack.
>
>     I don't think you can convert deb into rpms ; way too many
>     dependencies issues
>
>
> You can convert them, but there's no point for complex software like 
> mythtv as it simply truncates most of the dependancies, and 
> postinstall scripts are not usually run correctly.
>

With a ready repo it makes no sense to try to roll my own. Thanks for 
the info

Bill


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