I've got my MythTV machine all up and running using Jarod's guide and FC2 ATRPMs. Excellent work you guys!
I'm now thinking of downloading the latest stuff from CVS, compiling and installing etc, but I'm VERY nervous about doing this in case I stuff up my beautiful MythTV system. As we don't have a VCR any more my wife would not be happy - and I'd be heartbroken! However, there do seem to be some good things in CVS that I'd like - such as better commercial flagging which doesn't work well for Australian TV under MythTV 0.16. I want to understand a few things better before I start: 1) ATRPMs installs into /usr but all the mailing list stuff I could find talked about keeping different versions under /usr/local and using symlinks to switch between versions with tools like Stow, Encap, OpenPKG. There is a HOWTO at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UpgradeToCvsHowTo but it doesn't go into much detail. What to do if I want to install CVS stuff into /usr/local but all the existing ATRPM stuff is in /usr? 2) Do I _really_ have to obliterate the existing mythtv install (the above HOWTO says to do rpm -qa | grep myth | xargs rpm -e)? This seems a bit drastic to me. Isn't there a way of keeping the ATRPM install as a fall-back/safety net if I stuff up with CVS? 3) Perhaps I'm worrying too much? Most of my effort has probably been getting drivers, lirc, X modelines, MythTV settings, modules.conf, peripheral scripts etc working. If I go to CVS are we really just talking about a couple of dozen of MythTV executables that will either work or not, and if they don't I can just go back a version as all the other stuff is unaffected? Is it less risky and painful than I think? 4) If I do this, do I have to say goodbye to ATRPMs for ever? What will happen, for example, if I want to go to FC3 and ATRPMs seemss the easiest way to do that - will I be able to do it? Any advice, pros & cons etc anyone can give me would be great. Thanks, Phill
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