[mythtv-users] Mythtv on CentOS 7

[Mark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael A Weber
> Sent: Saturday, 12 December 2015 5:32 AM
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on CentOS 7
> 
> Hey, users!
> 
> I’m considering upgrading my Mythtv backend to CentOS 7 since there are
> some other features it has that I need over CentOS 6.
> 
> I have read the page over at mythtv.org that says, basically, “it works well.”
> Aside of that, does anyone have any “gotchas” to share?  Or, is 0.28 of
> Mythtv close enough on the horizon that I should wait for its release before
> upgrading?
> 
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
I'm using CentOS7 for my main backend (0.27) but I've also setup an 0.28 backend which I was planning on moving to about a month ago but I pulled out of due to niggles and time. I've also put two test backends on a VM on CentOS7. In my limited experience I thought the move to CentOS7 went reasonably smoothly. I didn’t have any particular QT issues but I used the nux-desktop repo rather than RPMFusion (sorry Richard) and compiled mythtv from source.

I'm certainly no expert but I just started right at the start and downloaded and attempted to compile MythTV from source and basically dealt with each dependency / hiccup in turn. At each step it was usually reasonably clear what was needed next. I had wanted to compile the various codecs myself from source but I couldn't seem to get mythtv to find them and I didn't want to spend time on it so I used nux-desktop for those dependencies. I assume the issue I had was inexperience with setting appropriate paths. I also had some time consuming "fun" with SELinux and Mythweb because I have kept SELinux in enforcing mode, but got there eventually.

I have not tried (and currently have no plans to try) putting a frontend on CentOS7, but don't imagine that it would be any more problematic than a backend.

At one point I was planning on waiting for 0.28 but other things forced my hand and I decided I couldn't wait. I don't know - and this is pure speculation and uninformed guessing - but my impression is that 0.28 won't be out for a while (in my mind I'm guessing not before the middle of 2016 but I have no knowledge of what the dev's are doing or where they are at, that is just the date I put on it in my mind so that I could decide what I was going to do two months ago). Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.