[ATrpms-devel] mythtv

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 03:13:47PM +0000, John Robinson wrote:
> I can't install mythtv from stable on EL5 (with yum). It needs 
> perl-XML-Twig, flac and PIL from testing. Might some versions thereof be 
> marked stable?

They are deliberately marked as "testing" although they are stable as
I didn't want to replace any RHEL5 package in the "stable" repo. In
this sense the "testing" repo is being abused to differentiate between
users that want no-replacement policy and other that do accept
replacements of vendor packages.

> Oh, also, it's only xmltv-grabbers that wants perl-XML-Twig >= 3.28; can 
> it really not manage with 3.26 (ships with EL5) instead?

All versioned dependencies are extracted from the upstream
sources. E.g. if it mentions 3.28 as a minimal version, then the
sources will have been requiring this. And as I know the xmltv authors
are quite correct with the versioning, e.g. when they require a
minimal version it is unlikely that an older one could suffice.

> Having said this, I may have something screwy going on, and I may be 
> wrong about PIL too; `yum --enablerepo=atrpms-testing list PIL` showed 
> nothing but I just downloaded and installed it...
> 
> Eek, `yum --enablerepo=atrpms-testing install mythtv` has finally 
> resolved all its dependencies and now wants 100 packages coming in at 
> 100M. I hope it's good :-)

Note that "mythtv" is a package pulling in all and everything about
mythtv. If you have the space and bandwidth there is nothing wrong
with that, but if you don't you may want to install mythtv-frontend
and the like instead (depending on the role of the system in
question).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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