[mythtv-users] options for upgrade from 0.21

[Joseph Fry]

>
> > > I knew this day was coming... My trusty Myth box, nearly 8 years old,
> > >
> > > Anyone with experience upgrading from a way-old Myth?
> >
> > Just do an iterative upgrade... 0.23, 0.25, 0.27.... should be pretty
> > flawless as far as upgrading the critical data (recording history).  Then
> > I would do a full DB backup (just in case) and a partial DB backup (for
> > restoring to the new system).
>
> Dang, forgot to mention one (critical) part: the old box is running Fedora
> 9 (pre-Core days) with a /boot too small to upgrade, or I would have way
> back. And could I even get RPMs for 0.23 for it?
>
> So what I'd have to do is install Fedora-something on the new machine and
> do the Backup/Restore to it, and then continue upgrading Myth on it.
>

You don't necessarily need to upgrade Fedora to update myth (you may need
to build from source, and you may have dependency issues though).

You could probably get away with creating a VM on another system,
installing a linux distro of your choice that included Mythtv 0.21, then
upgrading from there... just to get the schema where it should be.

Its a shame that no one developed the schema updater as a separate app that
would update any version to any other version... would be handy.
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