[mythtv-users] Best update path from Fedora 6

[Niels Dybdahl]

I have not touched my MythTV installation for a long time (it worked
well...).
Now Google Calendar will no longer support Firefox 1.5, so I guess I have to
upgrade.

I am running Fedora 6 and MythTV 0.20 backend/frontend from atrpms. The PC
is also running two mediawikis.
I am considering one of the following:

1. Try to do a yum-update from Fedora 6 to Fedora 10
2. Install the Fedora 10 DVD on top of my existing installation.
3. Install MythDora
4. Switch to MythBuntu

But I am nervous about one issue: What happens with my mysql databases
(MythTV and MediaWiki)? I have backups, but will the new versions of MythTV
and MySQL automatically update them properly?

As far as I have read an installation of the Fedora 10 DVD will almost wipe
out my currently installed programs, so I guess I will have to install
MythTV from scratch afterwards. But can MythTV handle an old database when
it is not installed as an update but from scratch? Would I have to do
something special to handle this case?

Using yum all the way through would probably solve the update problem of the
databases, but I guess there will be a lot of version conflicts that have to
be resolved, if possible at all.

MythDora might be a solution as I guess it is written to update existing
installations. However I do not have much experience with MythDora. Would it
be best to older versions of MythDora, so that I would not update directly
from Fedora 6 to newest MythDora? I guess MythDora would then work on
completely different repositories than I had before. I would like to install
a subversion server, would that be available from the MythDora repositories?

I have read that Ubuntu should be much easier to upgrade (no DVDs needed),
so it might be an option to start from scratch with MythBuntu instead. But I
guess I would have to adjust a lot of my different scripts (backup and
others...). Also would subversion be available from the MythBuntu
repositories?

A lot of questions..., any feedback will be appreciated.

Niels Dybdahl
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20090328/a8e17c96/attachment-0001.htm>