On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:47:26PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
On Jeu 29 décembre 2005 18:18, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 29.12.2005, 11:50 -0500 schrieb Brian Long:
>>
>> I believe there are 2 types of 3rd party repo users:
>>
>> 1) Fedora user who needs 3rd party repos for certain apps but never
>> wants that repo to override base Fedora RPMs
>
> Then use a 3rd party repo that does not override Fedora Core or Extras
> RPMS. Yes, such a repo exists, but no, I still has no mythtv -- nobody
> stepped up to package it there. Any volunteers?
I suspect this will happen real soon after ivtv is merged in upstream
kernel and appears in Raw Hide (ivtv is currently being merged with v4l,
which will be then merged upstream)
There's no real point in packaging mythtv cleanly when the driver most
users need is not available easily without all sorts of fugly kernel
patching.
You assume that mythtv users are mostly using PVR x50 cards? I think
most are doing DVB based setups (or ATSC) instead, which is in modern
FC kernels. The existence or not of a driver is not very much relevant
for mythtv/freevo or friends. In fact the driver <-> application model
is quite orthogonal (and that is good).
I know I will donate personnaly packaging time if necessary to make
it
happen. But there's no real point now, packaging mythtv is one thing,
messing with the kernel is another. I have a lot of repect for the people
that try to maintain kernel modules in FE or livna but little wish to join
them.
There are rpms for ivtv since two or three years at
ATrpms. BTW ATrpms even hosts the ivtv project ...
--
Axel.Thimm at
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