[mythtv-users] Can I safely do a Ubuntu upgrade to keep 9.10 current?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Jon Whitear <jon at whitear.org> wrote:
>
>> Does that standard Ubuntu repo provides mythtv 0.23 for 9.10 ?
>>
>
> This is not part of Ubuntu's repository, but MythBuntu.  In MythTV Backend
> Setup I enabled the MythBuntu PPA (0.23 fixes).  After that some new
> dependency packages were installed and then Myth 0.23 was installed (or
> really upgraded from 0.22).
>
>
> This had me confused for a while. The Mythbuntu control centre lets you
> choose from 'stable' and 'trunk' as I recall. When 9.10 was released, stable
> was 0.22 and trunk would later become 0.23. What it doesn't tell you is that
> if you select 'trunk', it'll keep you at 0.23 i.e. when 0.23 is released, it
> will diverge from the trunk path and keep you on 0.23-fixes.
>
> In short, if you're on 9.10 and you want to run 0.23-fixes, select "trunk".
>
> (You might want to wait for somebody to confirm that before doing anything
> though ;-)
 If in doubt run

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -V

to see what versions are intended to be installed.