[mythtv-users] What's the best way to keep up with ATrpms upd ates?

[Weston, Toby (ELS)]

I use synaptic (do an apt-get install synaptic if you don't have it) to see
what *could* be upgraded before I do it, although it seems to want to
install an SMP kernel on my machine all the time, it otherwise works well.

I've had some success using Redhat Network Applet thing to try and
automatically tell me when updates are available but it often doesn't play
nice. I made sure it has the same list of sources but there was a bug in one
version, sometimes its just not nice blar blar blar.

Also, I think its apt-get upgrade myth-suite to upgrade all of myth (see
Jarod's guide incase I got that wrong), and you can use the -s switch to
just check the output before actually doing it / see what's going to be
changed.

One last tip (I learnt the hard way) is if you keep the old RPMs you can try
and rollback, I think you can even apt-get install something to a particular
version although I've forgotten how. I updated alsa to 1.0.6 and it stopped
working so managed to somehow get the older version back. 

Hope that helps,
Toby

mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org wrote:
> Many will say "if it aint broke, don't fix it'.  Me, I am an engineer,
> and I say 'If it aint broke I aint tweaked it enough' and I will get
> the latest whatever-I-can.
> 
> That said, I think this is a great question.  I too would like to
> know, having now got a working Myth, how do I stay at the bleeding
> edge, without busting it all up?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:47:45 +0000, Phill Edwards
> <phill_edwards at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I've got a mythtv box up and running. As I built it following Jarod
>> Wilson's build guide it's therefore a FC2 o/s with Axel Thimm's
>> RPMs. I'm wondering what is the best way to keep up to date with the
>> latest releases on this type of setup: 
>> 
>> - Do you just do "apt-get dist-upgrade" and hope everything turns
>> out OK? 
>> - What if I only want to upgrade the mythtv suite - would that be
>> "apt-get install mythtv-suite", or 
>> - "apt-get install mythtv-frontend" if I only wanted to upgrade the
>> frontend? 
>> 
>> How risky are these upgrades? Can things that once worked be broken
>> after the upgrade and if so how do you back out? Does apt-get keep
>> your existing config files after a package upgrade (such as
>> xorg.conf) or will I need to redo those? 
>> 
>> Finally, how do I see what is fixed in each package before I decide
>> whether to upgrade or not? 
>> 
>> I'm being a bit cautious here because now I'm up and running I don't
>> want to stuff it all up! 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Phill
>> 
>> 
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