[mythtv-users] MythTV - Complete How-TO build on Fedora Core 2
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knight at pogmech.net
knight at pogmech.net
Wed May 26 03:15:54 EDT 2004
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:19:02PM -0700, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On May 25, 2004, at 12:48, knight at pogmech.net wrote:
>
> >As much as I like to use RPM's whenever possible, I'm also of the old
> >school of compiling everything from scratch, if only to see how things
> >work. I also know some ppls OS setups can be very twisted, and
> >troubleshooting RPM installs could be more pain than just compiling
> >from source.
>
> Most people have a dedicated system for a Myth box. The OS setup is
> fairly straight-forward, and you should take a look at apt and/or yum
> if you haven't already. They handle pretty much all the dependency
> resolutions for you automatically, so its quite painless. But yes,
> there are definitely reasons to compile from source.
>
> >With that said, I think there is a place for both RPM and Compile from
> >source install guides. The MythTV.org docs seemed to be lacking a few
> >key details on getting the project setup, so I threw my doc out there
> >to help contribute.
>
> If you think the docs are lacking somewhere, it would good to put
> together a patch for Robert to include...
>
> >I agree what others have said about creating too many how-to docs, and
> >it could cause more confusion as more unofficial how-to's flood the
> >lists. I've read through dozens upon dozens of them in different
> >languages (thanks google translator!) just to get my setup working.
>
> I wasn't aware there were dozens and dozens of MythTV howtos out
> there... Or did you mean howtos in general, i.e., one for alsa, one for
> ivtv, etc.?
>
> >The offical doc maintainers are welcome to merge parts of my doc to
> >the offical one if they find it useful enough.
>
> I don't think that's how it works. The official doc maintainers don't
> get paid to do what they do and have no motivation to read someone
> else's docs (though they might). I wouldn't ever expect Robert to read
> over my doc to extract information (or for any other reason). If I
> think I have something that would help the official docs, I submit a
> patch (been a while since I've had time to read over ANY docs lately
> though). You're the one that says there are holes in the official doc,
> so in theory, you know best how to patch them. Long story short, if you
> think the official docs have holes, YOU should create doc patches to
> submit to plug said holes.
>
> --
> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
>
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Ok, I did not realize what the process was for getting things updated here. My brain must've blanked out on the section in the offical doc on just those procedures: "1.3 Contributing to this document". During my build out I had pure tunnel vision on getting mythtv done and working. Seeing others on the lists having similar issues, I thought I'd post my notes. I'll refrain from doing so in the future, and just add to any existing doc.
As I get more feedback on what I have done actually works for others, i'll start submitting patches to the doc (need to learn a bit more about SGML too). Since my build is really generic in nature, I doubt there would be that many differences.
-Rod
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