[mythtv-users] CentOS and 0.27-fixes (which really just means always-latest)

[John Pilkington]

On 23/04/14 22:33, HP-mini wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 16:44 -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:15 PM, HP-mini <blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz>
>> wrote:
>>          On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 09:08 -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:
>>
>>          >
>>          >
>>          > Seconded. I just (in the last two weeks) moved my backend
>>          from Redhat
>>          > to Ubuntu (14.04) and it was super simple. I even added a
>>          new page
>>          > with the compile steps in the MythTV wiki for 14.04.
>>
>>          If you are referring to this:
>>          http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Trusty_Tahr_Installation
>>          this is incomplete if not just wrong.
>>          You have to configure/build/install mythtv libs etc before
>>          doing the
>>          same for mythplugins.
>>
>>          Could mention mythweb & mythtv-scripts git sources.
>>
>>
>> I'm not disputing that it's incomplete, but I can say that it's not
>> wrong, in that if you follow those steps, you will have compiled
>> binaries that should allow you to complete an installation, if you
>> are
>
> You can not configure/build/install the mythplugins without having
> mythtv libraries installed first.
>
> The steps in that wiki page are in the wrong order.
>
> If you configure/build/install the mythplugins package first then you
> are building against a previous/old/distro-package libraries.
> This is a potential disaster.

That sounds a good point;  I have used a lightly modified version of the 
rpmfusion specfile to build complete sets of rpm packages (for both SL6 
and F19) which then get installed en bloc.  I haven't noticed problems 
that might have resulted from that process.   My builds haven't used 
mock, but I had thought that they would be equivalent to those from the 
repos.  Do they have this logical problem too?  Perhaps I should look 
more closely to see if the specfile does things that are even cleverer 
than I thought.

John P