[mythtv-users] Upgrade advice - JYA to mythbuntu auto-builds

[lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com]

On Thursday 01/04/2010 at 11:43 am, Chris Adams  wrote:
>>
>> I had a few gotchas, it seems jya's packages show up as 2:0.22 which 
>> apt thinks is newer than 0.23 so that was a pain. I upgraded a couple 
>> of backends and three frontends, same problem on each, apt didn't want 
>> to upgrade anything even after commenting out the jya repo and trying 
>> again.
>
> Yep, same thing I saw. He would've done it on purpose to make double
> sure the packages stomped on mythbuntu's base when you first add his
> repo.
>
>>
>> What I did was to add the mythbuntu 0.23 weekly builds repository, 
>> disable the jya repository, apt-get update, then manually apt-get 
>> remove all the mythtv packages, doesn't really matter everything is in 
>> the database after all.
>> I then installed mythtv, or mythtv-frontend or mythtv-backend and 
>> mythtv-themes as appropriate.
>
> That's what I was thinking of, but was afraid the mythconverg database
> would be killed as part of removing mythtv-database. I've backed it up
> though, so.. what's the worst that can happen, I'll restore it and let
> myth upgrade it :)




In the past I've purged every myth package off mythbuntu, switched 
repos and reinstalled - all settings and db were preserved.

But yah, backup anyway :)





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Lindsay Mathieson
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