[mythtv-users] Upgrading MythTV & Ubuntu at the same time: anybenefits?

[Igor Cicimov]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:28, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
> > Thanks for this thread. My MBE is Mythbuntu 10.10 and I was wondering if
> I
> > should upgrade the OS at the same time.  So what you guys are suggesting
> is,
> > wait till 12.04 comes out and then just do one big dist-upgrade?
>
> There are two common approaches.  The first is what
> I call the "big bang" approach.  Update everything
> at once, and hope everything works.  It is also called
> the "No guts, no glory" version.  If everything does
> work, you win.  If not, you will have no idea which of
> the hundreds of (small) changes made the difference.
> The second is what I call the "slow and steady" or
> "methodical" or "pedantic" way of taking one small
> step at a time, so that if something breaks, you
> know what specific change made a difference.  If
> everything works, you wasted a lot of time doing
> all those intermediate steps and testing.  In this
> second approach, one of your first steps is probably
> to test your backout recovery plans.  For the first,
> you do not need backups.
>
> Your personality may determine which approach
> you take.
>
> Gary
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I recently did MythTV 0.20/Mythbuntu 8.04 to MythTV 0.23-fixes/Mythbuntu
10.04 upgrade taking the "big bang" approach and all went fine. Did
complete system backup first of course in case I needed to recover and take
the "slow and steady" approach afterwards. I think this way is safe and
fast, why would you create lots of work for yourself if you can do it easy
way ;-) And if that doesn't work ... well then you have to take the hard
way.

Igor
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