[mythtv-users] Centos 7 and mythtv

[John Pilkington]

On 21/08/16 09:30, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>
>
> 2016-08-21 10:21 GMT+02:00 John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>>:
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>     On 20/08/16 10:14, John Pilkington wrote:
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>         On 20/08/16 03:46, James Abernathy wrote:
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>             Since I’m not getting anything figured out on Ubuntu 16.04.1
>             LTS as
>             far as a stable display on my monitor/TV, I’m testing other
>             long-term
>             solutions for my Mythtv system.
>
>             I installed Centos 7 today and got mythtv 0.27.4(v0.27-e4f65c8)
>             working and the system and TV display are very stable.  This
>             solution
>             is good until 2020 for full updates and 2024 for limited
>             updates.
>
>             So my question is what about 0.28?  Is that going to be
>             supported on
>             Centos 7?
>
>             I installed using the mythtv instructions for RHEL/Centos
>             and then
>             used the Mythtv Fedora instructions for configuration.  It’s
>             a little
>             more work than Mythbuntu, but I figured it out.  There was
>             no mention
>             of 0.28 in any of that information.
>
>             Jim A
>
>
>         I've been running 0.28-fixes under SL7 for some time, currently
>         from a
>         'mock' rebuild under f23 of the rpmfusion srpm.  I don't use a
>         lot of
>         the mythtv features on offer.  The only changes I have noted are:
>
>         - for el7: replace python2-mysql by mysql-connector-python
>         - remove frontend requirement for mesa-vdpau-drivers
>
>         and I imagine that the second wouldn't suit everyone.
>
>         I also have builds of 0.29-pre.  The one for f23 runs well, but I
>         haven't yet felt the need to install its equivalent on the SL7 box.
>
>         I have no idea what might eventually be available as packages
>         for el7,
>         but my build uses stuff from nux-dextop, which doesn't seem to be a
>         particularly active repo.
>
>
>     You might like to know about this.  The scrpms repo (TTBOMK)
>     provides packages in the ATrpms tradition and was started when
>     ATrpms began to fade away.  Packages from scrpms may not be
>     compatible with those from rpmfusion and epel - but rpmfusion
>     doesn't do el7 anyway.
>
>     I haven't used scrpms packages in the recent past and web searches
>     don't bring up much.  ISTR it has a google group for users.  There's
>     an automatic rebuild system, and it seems to be being kept up to date.
>
>     http://scrpms.net/pub/RPMS/el7/x86_64/
>     <http://scrpms.net/pub/RPMS/el7/x86_64/>
>
>
>     John P

>
> Hmmmm, could 've used those a while back.
> But now I've got mythtv in a container and I'm not reverting.
> Maybe I'll try to use that repo for a container and see how it works :-)
>
> Do they keep it up to date ?
>
> Rob

Announcement - 2015 June 22

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/587617#587617

Changelog of mythtv-backend 0.28-19.el7 from scrpms:

* 2016-08-17 Stephen Collier <stephenbcollier at gmail.com> - 0.28-19
- Update to latest git fixes (v0.28-48-gda908d5).

John