Michael Luich wrote: >What i've been doing is folowing jarod's guide and skiping the "use >apt-get to install mythtv". I do an apt-get buil-deps mythtv this >makes sure everything required to build mythtv is installed. Then i >just download the cvs and build it. I know that nythmusic requires >additional prereq's and you might be able to do apt-get buil-deps >mythmusic for that too. Have done it in a bit but will as soon as i >get access to my new build. (dang isp blocking ALL ports!) > >Michael Luich > But if you've been following jarod's guide, you started with a Fedora Core 3 distribution of Linux. When we're talking about starting from scratch, we really mean from scratch. I used a FC3 distribution as my host system, but I compiled the kernel, binutils, ... and everything from scratch. In this situtation, you can't do an apt-get build-deps mythtv as you don't have an apt-get application. By default, an LFS system doesn't have any package manager at all.
See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ for information about what this is. It's not for the faint of heart, but when you're done with the system, there are quite a few beneifts: 1) You know what software is installed on the system, why it is there, and what it does. 2) You know what goes into a working Linux system. 3) You have LOTS of experience compiling and installing a variety of applications. 4) Odds are, you've compiled your kernel many times (I've compiled my kernel 5-6 times for this MythTV box, as I continued to change options.) 5) Without the stuff you don't need, boot times are fairly quick. My machine boots in probably 30-45 seconds to get to the MythTV screen. 6) The Linux OS on my machine has not been stripped at this stage, I want to back things up before I do... But I would expect the amount of space required to be about 500mb for everything. I have 1.5gb of source code (tar'd and compressed) for every component sitting on the machine. When something goes wrong, I can look at it. I used LFS as a basis for making a digital picture frame, and while I don't plan on using it for my general development system (It's currently FC1, planning on upgrading to FC3,) I do plan on using LFS for all of my specialized tasks, such as MythTV, and more digital picture frames. If I were to start using a Linux Firewall, it would be an LFS system as well. Anthony _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
