Re: staying on mythtv 0.24

On 4/15/2012 1:03 AM, Kim Bisgaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is what I have done to stay on mythtv 0.24, if anyone wants to do
> the same. I would like to hear any ideas/corrections to do it more
> elegantly that what I have done, because that was laborious ;-) The
> situation I'm in is also unstable, in that, it prefers to upgrade to
> 0.25 :-(
>
> First I did an yum install of all mythtv packages *already* installed on
> my system, noting f anything would bring in 0.25 packages. The process
> was much like:
> rpm -qa myth\* | sed 's/0.24.2-281/0.24.3-282/g' | xargs yum install
>
> I noticed that there where some 0.24 libraries still wanting to update,
> so I did that:
> yum update libmyth\*-0.24_0
>
> Still there where some libraries wanting to upgrade, but insisting on
> upgrading to 0.25. Those I did with:
> yum install libmythavcodec52-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686
> libmythavcore0-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686
> libmythavdevice52-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686
> libmythavfilter1-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686
> libmythavformat52-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686
> libmythavutil50-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686
> libmythpostproc51-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686 libmythswscale0-0.24.3-282.fc16.i686
>
> My reason for staying on 0.24 for the time being is until I hear how
> 0.25 fares with AMD/ATI graphics, and which driver one needs (radeon or
> catalyst)
> Hope it helps someone.
>
> Regards,
> Kim

Yes, Kim, it's going to help those of us with CentOS-5 backends where 
.25 isn't available but CentOS-6 frontends where we will need to perform 
this procedure. I'll be sure to save your procedure. It will save me 
some work. Thanks.