[mythtv-users] Best distribution for MythTV

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Tue Sep 1 11:43:07 UTC 2020


On 01/09/2020 12:34, beppo wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 1. September 2020, 13:16:52 CEST schrieb John Pilkington:
>> On 01/09/2020 11:25, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> On 01/09/2020 10:58, John Pilkington wrote:
>>>> FWIW I have been using Gary Buhrmaster's build script to create sets
>>>> of rpm packages for some time now.  I wouldn't want to create
>>>> additional demands on his time, but creating a new set of packages
>>>> for, say, master in Fedora 31 now has the command line (perhaps after
>>>> a 'git pull') :
>>>>
>>>>     ... rpm ] $  ionice -c3 ./BUILD_MYTHTV_RPMS -r
>>>> fedora-31-x86_64-rpmfusion_free
>>>>
>>>> On my 10-year-old Core2duo machine that takes about 90 minutes.  I
>>>> build there for el7 too, but there's a vpx conflict with
>>>> el7/kde/plasma that needs minor specfile edits.  The build processes
>>>> are done in clean environments using mock.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/packaging/blob/master/MythTV/rpm/README
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/packaging/commits?author=garybuhrmaster
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/packaging
>>>
>>> That's interesting. I wonder if I could fork that and convert it to
>>> OpenSUSE. Maybe I don't need to change distros.
>>
>> On my el7 box (which I don't use for these builds) these distros are
>> apparently covered.  Just specifying the  right .cfg could work.
>>
>> ls /etc/mock | grep suse
>> opensuse-leap-15.1-aarch64.cfg
>> opensuse-leap-15.1-x86_64.cfg
>> opensuse-leap-15.2-aarch64.cfg
>> opensuse-leap-15.2-x86_64.cfg
>> opensuse-tumbleweed-aarch64.cfg
>> opensuse-tumbleweed-i586.cfg
>> opensuse-tumbleweed-ppc64.cfg
>> opensuse-tumbleweed-ppc64le.cfg
>> opensuse-tumbleweed-x86_64.cfg
>>
>>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> you don't need to change your distro, I build my own rpms for OpenSUSE for
> years now.
> I use the spec files from the Packman repo and modify it for mythtv-v31.
> 
> If you are interested, I can share you spec file.

This is excellent. I have a very clear way forward now, and two possible 
sources for spec files.

Thank you so much to all the helpful people that have made comments.



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