<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:28, Matt Emmott <<a href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> Thanks for this thread. My MBE is Mythbuntu 10.10 and I was wondering if I<br>
> should upgrade the OS at the same time. So what you guys are suggesting is,<br>
> wait till 12.04 comes out and then just do one big dist-upgrade?<br>
<br>
</div>There are two common approaches. The first is what<br>
I call the "big bang" approach. Update everything<br>
at once, and hope everything works. It is also called<br>
the "No guts, no glory" version. If everything does<br>
work, you win. If not, you will have no idea which of<br>
the hundreds of (small) changes made the difference.<br>
The second is what I call the "slow and steady" or<br>
"methodical" or "pedantic" way of taking one small<br>
step at a time, so that if something breaks, you<br>
know what specific change made a difference. If<br>
everything works, you wasted a lot of time doing<br>
all those intermediate steps and testing. In this<br>
second approach, one of your first steps is probably<br>
to test your backout recovery plans. For the first,<br>
you do not need backups.<br>
<br>
Your personality may determine which approach<br>
you take.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Gary<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Igor</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>