On Jun 15, 2005, at 10:54 AM, David Thomas wrote:
Hmmm, I built my MythTV box on FC3, believe me it was a pain.
MythTV alone
was cool but to add the mpeg2 decoder card and the builtin video on
the
micro-ITX board was a nuisance. I would have given up without yum,
which
you pretty much don't get with RHEL -- no repos. You can use
up2date but
you need to be paying for support on that box. Or have I been missing
something?
I just built my first gentoo box, and I'm realizing that might have
been
a better option for me considering everything I had to build from
source.
You need to read this:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
It's a step-by-step walkthrough for getting MythTV set up on a Fedora
box. You shouldn't have to build *anything* by hand, it's all
provided in RPM format, including drivers, by the ATrpms package
repository (http://atrpms.net/). You'll note that ATrpms also
supports RHEL3 and RHEL4, so those package sets should be usable on a
CentOS box.
But once you get MythTV running on a Fedora box, you shouldn't have
to follow the continuous Fedora releases as long as ATrpms keeps
building new MythTV RPMs for your distro. They're still supporting
FC1 as of today, so I imagine if you follow that HowTo up above and
use FC3, you'll be good for at least a year or two.
That said, I built my MythTV box on Gentoo and it worked
exceptionally well. This was before the excellent ATrpms stuff
existed however. It's your call. :)
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