[mythtv-users] Help me choose a Redhat based OS for MythBackend

[Mike Andy]

> http://www.atrpms.net/install.html

thanks for the link, seems pretty straight forward just to add the
repo. I can see in yum.cfg looks like it'll detect the arch and flavor
i'm on

> For the last two CentOS major releases (4 and 5), there has been about
> a month between the RHEL release and the CentOS variant becoming
> available.

Yeah I saw as much on Wikipedia, I just don't know when RHEL6 will be
officially released (I guess neither does anyone) "It'll be released
when it's ready" seems to be the current information.

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Sorry I only joined yesterday, I'm reformed already!


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 April 2010 23:52, Mike Andy <beatbreaker82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> exactly the advice I was looking for thanks Nick.
>>
>> Obviously coming from other distros I've never heard of atrpms.net but
>> this seems to be the way to go. There does seem to be a lot of i386
>> packages in there though, I guess it's just how they've been compiled?
>> So how do I use it, do i add atrpms.net as a repository somehow or
>> just install the rpms individually with rpm -ivh ?
>
> http://www.atrpms.net/install.html
>
> Add atrpms.net as a 3rd-party repository, and install software using
> your preferred package manager (yum/smart/etc).
>
>> So yeah I'll just stay on mythtv 0.22 until CentOS comes out with a
>> ver 6 of RHEL then upgrade everything at once to myth 0.23
>>
>> I guess the next question is when will this all happen? could be 6
>> months down the track by the time RHEL 6 is released and CentOS catch
>> up? Could be longer?
>
> For the last two CentOS major releases (4 and 5), there has been about
> a month between the RHEL release and the CentOS variant becoming
> available.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
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