[mythtv] Jarod's Guide / atRPMs general questions

[Harry Orenstein]

On Monday 27 December 2004 12:12 am, Harry Orenstein wrote:
> I was just wondering some general things, and I don't think I have seen
> these questions asked before so I thought they might have an appeal to more
> than just myself:
>
> 1. After my initial install using Jarod's Guide for FC3 I changed atRPMs in
> apt from stable to testing.  This upgraded my ivtv driver from 100zz to
> 0.2.0rc3a.  Under 100zz I didn't seem to get any errors in
> /proc/interrupts.   Now I get about 2% errors for the ivtv interrupts.
>  This apparently doesn't affect the quality of my captures, but it is
> puzzling.  Anyone else have this problem?  Is it any cause for concern?
>
> 2. How often should I do an apt-get upgrade?  It seems like I could do at
> least 10's of MBs per week in upgrades if I wanted to stay absolutely
> up-to-date.  As far as security updates this would seem to make sense.  I
> don't know if it makes sense in general to do so much updating if my system
> is stable and doing what I want it to.  Any opinions?  One update which I
> would like to make is avidemux2 since the atRPMs version (2.0.28) seems to
> have some problem that the dag version (2.0.34test2) doesn't, but I would
> have to uninstall avidemux2 to make the update unless I do a complete
> apt-get upgrade.
>
>
> Any and all feedback will be greatfully accepted.  TIA!
>
>
> -- Harry O.


DAMN!  Accidentally posted to the wrong list!!  Mea Maxima Culpa!!


-- Harry O.