[mythtv-users] Upgrading Fedora 12 AND Mythtv 0.22 on the same combined FE/BE

[Jarod Wilson]

On Nov 7, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Today is actually the day I finally drop my own Fedora 12 backend though, replacing it with a RHEL6 backend...
>> 
> 
> Slightly off the original topic, Jarod, is there an upgrade path to
> RHEL6 (or in my case CentOS), or is it a drop/reload?

Technically, it might be possible to do an "upgrade", but realistically, not from any relatively recent Fedora (12 and up?), as even Fedora 12 has packages that are rpm-newer than RHEL6. I actually stuck with Fedora 12 on my backend a lot longer than I normally would have, because the versions of everything are quite close to what ended up in the RHEL6 tree, for core things that matter, like mysql, qt, httpd, kernel (actually, kernel is the one thing I know for sure is rpm-older in RHEL6, since F12 has 2.6.32.x for its kernel rpm version, which is rpm-newer than plain 2.6.32 in RHEL6).

Anyway, I did a clean install of RHEL6, then simply slid data and config files over from the F12 install, and at least so far, all seems to be well...

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com