[ATrpms-devel] building mythtv 0.24 on el5, status and instructions

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 07:59 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
> On 22 November 2010 07:39, Jonathan Martens <jonathan at snetram.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Do we really need sqlite support? Perhaps we can disable this (at least for
> > now to see if compile runs to the end and produces useable binaries).
> 
> I did have that thought, obviously myth only supports mysql, the
> sqlite dependency seems to come from qt-webkit I'm not sure where that
> comes from, but when I upgraded from qt44 to qt47 they were both
> pulled in, I was hoping Axel might be able to chip in some hint from
> when he built the qt packages ...

The sqlite is part of the qt47 build and runtime requirements. The qt47
packages are an almost one-to-one backpackaging of what Fedora ships.

Since we are going this route (shipping a newer qt) I wanted to allow
more consumers to use these packages, not only mythtv users. There are
several pros/cons to that:

pros:
 o more users than mythtv, qt47 packages do more good to this world ;)
 o more testers of these packages even outside the mythtv world
 o easier upgrading since it's 99% of what Fedora ships
 o (related to the last): faster response to CVEs

cons:
 o too many dependencies, mythtv needs about half of them
 o build time is too long
 o need to backpackage stuff like sqlite we don't really want to be
   shipping/maintaining

Given that the cons were dealt with, I like that we can now offer qt
4.7.x to EL5/EL6 users for any reasons they need it.
-- 
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