[mythtv-users] Rpmfusion on Fedora 29 Beta -- so far so good

[Jerry]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:00 PM Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to give a heads-up in case anyone was thinking about
> upgrading to Fedora 29 Beta.  For some reason, I get itchy when there is a
> new release and I like to get the upgrade over with.
>
> I ran into two issues.  I would consider one to be current.
>
> 1) The initial mythtv-29-22 rpms had an issue with mytharchive.  There
> were references to "Requires" mkisofs and cdrecord.  One might have issue
> when doing a dnf system-upgrade.  I changed these in the spec file to
> genisoimage and wodim, rebuilt the rpms and the dependency issues were
> fixed.
>
> Rpmfusion has since released mythtv-29-23 rpms and they are in the testing
> repository.  I'd say just reinstall the mythtv, mytharchive and
> mythtv-plugins rpms if they have issues when upgrading.  I may have
> misspelled their names.  They installed fine.
>
> 2) I had some references to innodb in my /etc/my.cnf.d configuration
> file.  mariadb 10.3 would not start.  I commented those out and things seem
> okay.
>
> I'll report back if I run into any more issues.  I've had good luck with
> other services so far.  I had an issue with Kodi and LIRC and I posted my
> fix on the RPMFusion bug tracker (had to add lirc-devel as a "Requires" in
> the spec file).  I haven't experienced anything as problematic as the GCC
> upgrade to 8.x that occurred with F28.  After the mysql tweak, Mythbackend
> started back up and I've had several successful recordings.  FWIW, I have a
> HDHomerun Prime and a nVidia 760 GTX and I'm running XFCE.
>
> Good luck if you try it.  As they say, take a backup because if you break
> it, you bought it.
>

3) A while ago, I configured Sendmail to forward the various status updates
that come up from time to time as well as the daily logwatch script.  It
was pretty much overkill and I had a hell of a time getting things working
right.

It worked for about 5 years until this update.  There was an issue with
TLS.  It looks like my old configuration wasn't ready for TLS 1.3.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GnuTLS-TLS1.3

I took a look at the configuration files and felt my usual wave of nausea
when dealing with Sendmail.  I finally just switched to Postfix, which is
actually actively updated and is much more readable.  I haven't fully
tweaked it yet but the mail is going out.  I'm only sending from this host
and not listening.

Again, this is probably overkill but I want to make sure that drops in my
internet connection don't result in undelivered mail.  I had msmtp running
and it seemed like it wasn't 100% reliable.  This way ensures that I get
all of root's mail when I'm on vacation, for example.  I like to see those
daily logwatch mails, too, just to know that my machine is still going.
And then sometimes the mail from smartctl.  Always a pleasure.  Especially
when away from home. :(

I'm sure I could have eventually gotten Sendmail working but I think it was
time to kick that to the curb.

This involved running 'update-alternatives --config mta' and selecting
postfix (after installing it).  The configuration is much easier to deal
with.  I followed a guide and only had to change a few settings.  Try doing
that with Sendmail.

So if you have Sendmail configured, you might want to look at the TLS
settings.  Or maybe not, YMMV.
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