[mythtv-users] Undo 14.04 LTS update

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi James,

Sunday, August 2, 2015, 3:57:50 AM, you wrote:

You knew what you were doing. And that's the difference!
We're talking about other people!

>> On 1 Aug 2015, at 8:00 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
>> 
>>>> Maybe I'm being naive, but the elegance of Mythtv that I've seen so far
>>>> leads me to believe there would be a more elegant, less blood sweat and
>>>> tears way to upgrade our OS. Something like running "diff" against a
>>>> "rsync'd" OS backup  and a fresh install and then have the product
>>>> "automagically" inserted appropriately into the new OS release? Is this
>>>> even possible? When I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04, there was plenty of
>>>> B,S,&T, due to poor memory of the five or six things (udev, etc) beyond
>>>> the database backup and usually only a short window of opportunity to
>>>> get'er done.
>>>> 
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> 
>>> Hmmm, I just updated the OS (ie. do-release-upgrade), did a did a full
>>> clean rebuild of mythtv (ie. make distclean; configure etc etc) and
>>> it all kept working.
>>> 
>>> I've also done the same with my fedora installs. f20->f21->f22 using
>>> fedup
>>> 
>>> But then I never use the distro packaged versions since I work on the
>>> code.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Stuart
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> What I do is keep two 30GB partitions for 2 copies of the operating
>> system, and each upgrade I clean install into the other then switch the
>> boot sequence in grub. This makes for a very easy rollback if needed. I
>> make sure to create the mythtv user and group with the same uid and
>> group id as before so that they can access and update the recordings.
>> Install mythtv in the new partition and restore the database there.

> What are your 1/2 dozen things?

> I’ve swapped distro (openSuSE to ARCH) and except for a few DISTRO
> items I had no trouble. IE getting mythweb working was such a task
> that I’d *never* forget what I did, but before I documented what-I’d-done I forgot :-(
> (and in case anybody references this: using the distro packages I
> was unable to get everything working - and I really tried)

> James

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