On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:00 -0700, David Rees wrote:
>> Last time I tried using lirc strictly from Fedora, I had problems with
>> the lirc_serial driver. IIRC, at some point in time it wasn't included
>> with the kernel. I see that it is now on my Fedora 8 machine, so I'll
>> try removing the ATrpms versions of lirc and see if the upstream
>> versions work.

Just switched over to the RPMs from koji and got everything migrated
and working. Here's what I had installed before:

lirc-0.8.3-73_cvs20071109.fc8
lirc-lib-0.8.3-74_cvs20080314.fc8
lirc-kmdl-2.6.24.5-85.fc8-0.8.3-74_cvs20080314.fc8

I removed the kmdl and then tried to upgrade using the new lirc and
lirc-libs, but lirc complained that it was older than the ATrpms
version. So then I tried --oldpackage, but then lirc-libs conflicted
with lirc-lib from ATrpms.

Finally just removed lirc and lirc-lib with --nodeps then reinstalled
lirc and lirc-libs.

ATrpms uses /etc/sysconfig/lircd, Fedora uses /etc/sysconfig/lirc so I
had to transfer my lircd options over.

Unloaded the old lirc modules I had loaded, loaded the ones from the
kernel and stopped/started lircd. Restarted mythwelcome and
mythfrontend and everything seems to still work. So from my point of
view, looks good! :-)

> Yep, lirc patches have been in the Fedora kernels since sometime in the
> 2.6.23 timeframe, including the kernel F8 originally shipped with, iirc.

I swear I tried using Fedora lirc when I upgraded this machine to F8,
but I could be wrong... Maybe it was some other issue that kept it
from working. Is Fedora still shipping lirc patches with recent
kernels? Are you working on getting them upstream into Linus' kernel?

> I did talk with Ryan Pisani on this topic a bit, sounds like there may
> be a few drivers in the ATrpms package that aren't in the kernel for
> whatever reason. Assuming this is the only compelling reason for
> out-of-tree builds anymore, I'd either suggest the atrpms packages only
> carry those modules, or we figure out what's required to build them in
> with the kernel. User-space though, I can't think of any reason for
> duplication.

Neither can I. And I also think that keeping as much as possible
upstream simplifies things for the end users as well.

-Dave

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