[mythtv-users] Best update path from Fedora 6

[Niels Dybdahl]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Andrew Burgess <aab at cichlid.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 12:31 +0100, Niels Dybdahl wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> If that's your only motivation have you considered compiling firefox
> from source? It might involve installing alot of the dependencies from
> source too since I would imagine current fc6 rpms are scarce.


No that is not my only motivation. There are more: I would like to make DVDs
from DVB recordings with subtitles, I like the fullscreen mode of Firefox 3,
I would like to get in sync with the repositories again in order to install
a SVN server... So it is not just a matter of Firefox.


> > 2. Install the Fedora 10 DVD on top of my existing installation.
>
> Two choices for #2 - upgrade or new install, though I'll bet no one
> tested upgrading from fc6 to fc10. Might be safer (and more tedious) to
> do the upgrade sequentially (7,8,9,10). Once doing a fedora upgrade it
> didn't work for me and I had to do a fresh install - I don't recall the
> version numbers.


Yes I have in the past upgraded from FC1->FC3->FC4->F6 and when upgrading to
FC4 it all got messed up, so that I had to reinstall. That experience is
probably the main cause why I have not upgraded since F6.


> > 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?
>
> Smaller version jumps have always worked fine for me. A db backup makes
> it a safe experiment for you. Worst case you'd have to install
> intermediate versions but I'd bet it works in one jump. Just my guess,
> others will know for sure.


Installing intermediate versions would be quite a problem for me as atrpms
for F7 and F8 do no longer exist.

I guess I will give the F10 DVD a try. If it can not upgrade my
installation, I will do a clean install of F10, copy my mythconverg database
into the system and install MythTV and see if it can upgrade my database.

Thanks for the tips
Niels
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