[mythtv-users] Upgrading question

[William Munson]

Harry Devine wrote:
> Sean Goodpasture wrote:
>   
>> On Nov 21, 2007 8:09 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net 
>> <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     William Munson wrote:
>>     > Harry Devine wrote:
>>     >> I was thinking about upgrading my Myth box to the latest version,
>>     >> mainly because I'd like to get the updated Mythweather.  I was
>>     >> looking around on Axel's atrpms.net <http://atrpms.net/> site
>>     and saw that the latest
>>     >> packages available for FC6 are 0.20.2-168.fc6.  So, I checked my
>>     >> versions and found the following:
>>     >>     mythfrontend -> 0.20.2-163.fc6
>>     >>     mythbackend -> 02.20.2-163.fc6
>>     >>
>>     >> With this, I have 2 questions:  1)  Whats the proper way to upgrade
>>     >> my system?  Will 'yum update mythtv' work?  2)  How can I
>>     determine
>>     >> the plugins versions?  Will updating via yum also update the
>>     plugins?
>>     >>
>>     >> Thanks,
>>     >> Harry
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >
>>     > FC6 is end-of-life and no longer updated. I had no serious problems
>>     > switching to F8 although the switch did redo where the various
>>     drives
>>     > mapped. Not a big deal but you should be aware of it.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     I installed my box with Mythdora, so I'll have to check if they
>>     have any
>>     updates for F8.  If not, how did you upgrade?  Did you upgrade to a
>>     stock F8 installation, then add Myth afterwards?  Did you pull in the
>>     latest packages from atrpms?  I assume that I'd have to tuck my
>>     database
>>     away somewhere if I went this route, correct?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Harry
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>> Since you used Mythdora, just run yum upgrade \*myth\* and you'll get 
>> something new :-) 
>>     
> I just tried that and got error messages similar to the following (after 
> all the upgraded packages were downloaded):
>
> "file /usr/include/mythtv/util.h from install of 
> mythtv-devel-0.20.2-169.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
> libmyth-devel-0.20.1-156.3.md4"
>
> One thing that I didn't do was stop either the frontend or backend (I'm 
> doing this via an SSH connection).  This probably matters to some 
> extent, but do you have any other ideas?
>   

Since you are running a "package" system that has not been updated by 
the author lately, there are 2 choices.

1) Manually upgrade by changing your yum FC6 repo's to F8 repo's and 
upgrade everything manually. Pain in the butt but will retain all your 
settings and recordings.

2) Switch "packages". I would suggest that you check out MythUbuntu 
which was recently upgraded to "Gutsy" and which has a much longer 
lifetime left. Issue is that you will need to wipe and start over. Of 
course if your recordings are on a different drive than your linux 
install then all you need to do is dump your database and save it 
somewhere safe to be able to restore your settings.

Bill