[mythtv-users] Heads up - Gentoo 0.22 Upgrade Coming Soon

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Manuel McLure <manuel at mclure.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the heads-up. The following is going in all my machines
>> today until I see how the release works out.
>>
>> firefly ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask
>> =media-tv/mythtv-0.22*
>> firefly ~ #
>
> For what it's worth I've been running the 0.22 ebuilds since late
> November and they're much nicer than 0.21 was. VDPAU is a lifesaver
> for playing high def h.264 video. I _did_ have to fix my database
> using the partial restore method before the upgrade would succeed, but
> I didn't lose any recordings. I did have to reconfigure the whole
> thing.
>
> To minimize downtime, I added 0.22 to package.keywords, then did a
>
> emerge --onlydeps mythtv
>
> to build the dependencies, then did
>
> emerge --buildpkgonly mythtv
>
> and finally
>
> emerge -k mythtv
> --
> Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel at mclure.org> <http://www.mclure.org>

Thanks. That's good info.

The problem here is this switch over is made far more difficult (as
far as I understand) because 0.21 frontends won't be able to talk to
the updated 0,22 backend. If I'm wrong about then please correct me.

My backend is headless so it's not easy to determine if it's working
until I update at least 1 frontend. I have 5 dedicated frontend so the
complete upgrade is (for me) 6 Gentoo machines. It's a lot of work, a
lot of time, and if something doesn't work, a big drop in WAF.

I'm just going to be VERY careful and let others go first. None the
less I do appreciate your inputs. Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark