[ATrpms-users] Myth trunk for Centos 5?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 21:57 +1100, tony1 wrote:
> There are some dinosaurs out there running Centos 5 who suffer from
> headaches thinking about migrating years of accumulated software
> packages and data to a Centos 6 box. 
> 
> Keeping Myth running on Centos 5 for a bit longer would be greatly
> appreciated. 

0.23.x will still be available for quite some time. But if we get qt
4.5.2 built for RHEL5 and there are no other issues, maybe 0.24 will be
available for RHEL5 as well.

> On 17/10/10 06:42, Axel Thimm wrote: 
> > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:39 +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
> > > I thought it might be a good idea to get a preview of MythTV 0.24 by 
> > > installing a build from trunk on my largely-retired Centos 5 box - then 
> > > found that there wasn't one in 'bleeding' - although I see there is one 
> > > for Centos 6 beta.  Is there likely to be a build of 0.24 for Centos 5 
> > > or is this another aspect of the need to update that has recently had an 
> > > airing in mythtv-users?
> > mythtv 0.24 requires qt >= 4.5. ATrpms is currently shipping an addon
> > package for mythtv 0.23 qt44 which contains qt 4.4.3, but this is
> > obviously not enough for 0.24.
> > 
> > I tried building qt 4.6.2 on RHEL5, but there were some issues with
> > building qsql_sqlite.cpp, and I gave up for now.
> > 
> > Backpackaging qt 4.x with x>=5 would be a nice exercise for someone
> > going into advanced packaging (because it needs to be a forward
> > compatibility package for RHEL5, replacing qt or qt4 doesn't count ;)
> >  
> > OTOH RHEL6 is quite near and for running mythtv many users will prefer
> > the RHEL6 beta to RHEL5 I guess, so maybe there won't be any high demand
> > for it.
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