[mythtv-users] best current RedHat-based distro for simple MythTV

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

> On 7/13/2015 10:45 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>> To add to Gary's comments,
>>
>> I don't have very many issues running MythTV on Fedora 21 currently. I
>> would have upgraded to F22 already but RPM Fusion is undergoing
>> infrastructure changes to bring it up to date and it has taken MUCH longer
>> than thought so my plan is to stick with F21 until RPM Fusion officially
>> branches for F22.
>>
>> It's also worth mentioning I'm the current MythTV package maintain at RPM
>> Fusion. Prior to EL7 releasing I was trying to get working packages going
>> for EL6 but when the QT requirement changed from 4.6 to 4.8 (IIRC) it was
>> no longer possible. I have since spent some time looking at EPEL 7 but just
>> don't have the time right now.
>>
>> Take a look at SCRpms. Stephen has working qt48 packages for CentOS 6.
> I'm running them right now.


I'll leave it to the 3rd party repos to fill that gap. I'm personally fine
running Fedora rather than EL6/7...

RPM Fusion follows the Fedora packaging guidelines with the very specific
exception of allowing patent encumbered (free) and binary/redistributable
(non-free) software, but otherwise has the same policies. Without getting
too technical, the result of that is I can't duplicate packages that are
already provided. Since RHEL provides qt, I can't replace it.

Interestingly enough, qt5 is provided by EPEL but until MythTV 0.28 is
released I can't take advantage of it.

Thanks,
Richard
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