[mythtv-users] Upgrade order for MythTV vs Ubuntu

[Daryl McDonald]

"rsync" gets by partition size restrictions

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 4:31 PM Leo Butler <leo.butler81 at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 07:57, DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have MythTV 0.28 running on Ubuntu 16.04.  I would like to upgrade to
> >> MythTV 31 and Ubuntu 18.04.  But what should I upgrade first, MythTV or
> >> Ubuntu?  I don't want to run afoul of any dependencies, etc., that would
> >> hose the whole setup.
> >>
> >
> >
> > A little late to the conversation here, but I'm still running 16.04 on
> > Mythtv 30 and it runs fine, I thought there were also also Mythtv 31
> > packages also but appears not.
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/ubuntu/31/+packages
> >
> > need to goto at least18.04 for that.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony
>
> I wish I had checked this earlier. I did a combined upgrade ubuntu
> 16.04->18.04 and 0.28->0.29 on a BE and separate FE this week.
>
> As usual, I did a backup of the database first, then upgraded from
> 0.28->0.29, then upgraded the release.
>
> Both systems are on lvm on top of raid, so I simply mirrored the root lv
> at each step. That way, if the system borked completely or partially, I
> would be able to mount the needed mirror volume and/or boot from it. I
> do this at every dist-upgrade, in fact, because sometimes the system
> gets broken...or a script overwrites/deletes something that you actually
> wanted to keep...
>
> Anyhow, this time, everything worked fine (except ffmpeg, but that is
> another can of worms...)
>
> I relate all this because clonezilla and co. seem very inflexible. It
> would be better to have a strategy for dealing with updates/upgrades in
> a seamless way. Of course, filesystems like zfs might be an even better
> option but I haven't been brave enough for that.
>
> Leo
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