[mythtv-users] CentOS and Mythtv

[Dale Christ]

I wonder if I can upgrade from a CentOS 5 beta to CentOS 5 (by yum or by DVD
install - doesn't matter to me) once it's in production...

Any thoughts?

On 4/5/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:00:56PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:25:03 Tom Lichti wrote:
> > > Dale Christ wrote:
> > > > Has anyone tried using CentOS (I's probably use 5 when it completes
> > > > beta) for MythTV?  I'm curious to see if it more stable than Fedora
> > > > Core 6.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > I have a CentOS 4.4 frontend only running current SVN, and it works
> > > fine, no problems. I haven't tried it as a backend though.
> >
> > RHEL4/CentOS4 blows for a backend, at least if HDTV figures into the
> equation.
> > Most DVB drivers don't build on such an aged kernel. RHEL5/CentOS5
> doesn't
> > have drivers out of the box for most capture cards either, but they can
> be
> > built and provided via kernel module rpms (and Axel is already planning
> to do
> > so).
>
> You mean this? :=)
>
> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/video4linux/
> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/ivtv/
>
> > EL5 should indeed make for a rather nice platform.
>
> I think all bits are there for CentOS5 based mythtv boxes, but
> CentOS5. :)
>
> > Out of curiosity, what exactly has been unstable with FC6? I've never
> had any
> > issues with it myself, outside of the occasional kernel regression (i.e
> .,
> > cx88-dvb autoload breaking, but we have that fixed in the next kernel
> release
> > after 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6).
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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