[mythtv-users] Help me choose a Redhat based OS for MythBackend

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 7:19 AM, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 April 2010 02:09, Mike Andy <beatbreaker82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.atrpms.net/install.html
>>
>> thanks for the link, seems pretty straight forward just to add the
>> repo. I can see in yum.cfg looks like it'll detect the arch and flavor
>> i'm on
>
> In my experience of Fedora, If I add multiple 3rd party repos I end up
> sooner or later with a system that I can't do a full update on,
> because of package conflicts.
>
> My advice would be stick to the single repo that gives you most of
> what you want (and if it's mythtv you want then atrpms is an excellent
> choice).  Then, if you need some package that atrpms doesn't have,
> enable another repo temporarily, get what you want and disable it.
> It's just a bit easier to keep track of what's going on.

That's what I've done in the past. Go ahead and install the repo and
change the "enabled" flag to 0. Then when you need a package from it
just do "yum --enablerepo=<repo> install <package>". Just don't enable
it on an update run.

Richard