[mythtv-users] Interest in temporary mythtv repository for Fedora/RHEL?

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Tue Sep 24 20:44:35 UTC 2013


On 24/09/13 15:02, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:53 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 24/09/13 13:59, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>         Since the RPM Fusion builders are down and I have no idea when
>         they will
>         be repaired, I'm toying with the idea of running a mythtv
>         repository out
>         of my dropbox account. I'll need to make sure it doesn't violate
>         their
>         ToS but I also want to gauge interest from the list.
>
>         If you are interested, please reply letting me know what Fedora
>         release
>         and arch you're running (Or arch for EL 6)
>
>     This sounds great, although a working rpmfusion would be even
>     better; lack of nvidia modules (in my case for 304.88) means that
>     I'm not keeping up with kernel updates on my f18/x86_64 main box.  I
>     haven't yet made time to prepare for building for that from your SRPM.
>
>
> Agreed, but I have no visibility into the infrastructure side of RPM
> Fusion and it's been strangely quiet. I'm already building F19 and F18
> x86_64 packages since that's what I use at home.
>
>     My laptop runs SL6/i686 without nvidia, but with non-standard
>     packages from other repos, as detailed earlier.  Building from the
>     SRPM Just Works now, (tempting fate), taking around an hour.
>
>
> Let me know, I can build repo packages for EL6 unless you just want to
> build your own.

No, building for myself from your SRPM just seemed the quickest and 
easiest way to see 0.27 in action;  if pre-built packages were available 
I would expect to use those, although the need to keep up with commits 
might not seem so urgent now.

<snip>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>




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