[mythtv-users] Down grade from 0.24 trunk to 0.23.1 on Mythbuntu Lucid

Chris Adams rocket at extremelan.net
Mon Sep 6 06:26:05 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Scott <scott at frak.ms> wrote:
> Greets.
>
> I'm running a stable FE/BE combo on Mythbuntu Lucid with 0.23.1. I would like to test 0.24 trunk for some bug fixes and then downgrade back to my stable 0.23.1 setup.  As I understand it the basic steps would be to:
>
> 0) Shutdown MythTV FE/BE
> 1) Backup the MythTV DB
> 2) Change to use the 0.24 repo
> 3) Apply upgrade
> 4) Start and test MythTV FE/BE
> 5) Stop MythTV FE/BE
> 6) Change to use the 0.23.1 repo again
> 7) Apply upgrade
> 8) Restore the MythTV DB backup
> 9) Fire up MythTV FE/BE again
>
> Does it work? Any gotchas I need to watch out for?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Scott Russell

Have you considered a live CD?
Personally I wouldn't risk the myth packages leaving files around when
they're removed. You might get even subtler problems like if something
gets added to a config file and it breaks your old setup when you go
back.


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