[mythtv-users] Surprised by upgrade!

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Nov 30 19:14:27 UTC 2017


On 30/11/17 16:50, Marlon Buchanan wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com 
> <mailto:gbr at majentis.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2017-11-29 02:14 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
> 
>         I just upgraded a MythBunbtu 12.04 backend to 14.04. The upgrade
>         went incredibly smooth, no issues and no errors. I'll leave it
>         here for the day and try a 16.04 upgrade tomorrow. If that
>         works, I'll move from 0.27 to 0.28.
> 
>         Gerald
> 
>         ps: I had to tell someone about the clean upgrade... it's the
>         first clean one on this server (started at 8.04, I think), and
>         the wife wouldn't understand.
> 
> 
> 
>     I just went from .27 to 29 on 14.04. Again, flawless. Wow!
> 
>     Tomorrow, I try to get up to 16.04, then I don't have to worry about
>     it again for a few more years.
> 
>     Gerald
> 
> 
> I use Kubuntu, and am currently on 14.04. I upgraded to .29 a couple of 
> months ago and only had a few small issues with metadata lookups that 
> were fairly easily solved. I would have upgraded to 16.04 but I saw this:
> 
> https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-16-04-3-lts-update-available/
> 
> I don't know if I'm the average  user, but I didn't feel like dealing 
> with it at the time and 14.04 is working fine for me. I have about 7 
> systems that would need upgrading, 2 with tons of customizations way 
> beyond myth that I have running. I'll pass for now. Might try upgrading 
> one of my low priority frontend only systems over the holidays just to 
> see how it goes.
> 

I made a parallel post about the HWEnablementStack;  on reflection I 
realize that while I (and family) have had 14.04 kubuntu systems that 
now run 16.04, they were set up as multiple boot.  IIRC none of the 
16.04 installations that I know arrived via an upgrade.



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