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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/22/2012 1:20 PM, Scott Knight
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">on 10/22/2012 12:27 PM Larry Roberts
carved the following into a picnic table:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 10/22/2012 10:52 AM, Scott Knight wrote:
> on 10/22/2012 10:22 AM Larry Roberts carved the following into a
> picnic table:
>> Is there an easy way I'm not thinking of to see what the version of
>> mythtv that will be installed?
> Depending on your version of yum (I don't have access to any
> RHEL/CentOS 5 machines to test with), you can use --releasever and
> --showduplicates to query the repository with list. I would imagine
> something like this would be a good start:
> yum --releasever=6.3 --showduplicates list mythtv
unfortunately --releasever isn't an option for my version of yum...</pre>
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Bummer, that is pretty useful way to check other repositories.
You might be able to trick yum by temporarily editing
/etc/redhat-release to look like CentOS 6.3 and then just doing a
'yum list mythtv' or 'yum --showduplicates list mythtv' to see
what it thinks is available. FWIW, here is what my RHEL 6.3
systems contain:<br>
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)<br>
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Just quickly browsing <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dl.atrpms.net/el6.3-x86_64/atrpms/stable/">http://dl.atrpms.net/el6.3-x86_64/atrpms/stable/</a>
I ONLY see these:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dl.atrpms.net/el6.3-x86_64/atrpms/stable/mythtv-0.24.2-281.el6.x86_64.rpm"
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
">mythtv-0.24.2-281.el6.x86_64.rpm</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dl.atrpms.net/el6.3-x86_64/atrpms/stable/mythtv-0.24.3-282.el6.x86_64.rpm"
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
">mythtv-0.24.3-282.el6.x86_64.rpm</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dl.atrpms.net/el6.3-x86_64/atrpms/stable/mythtv-0.24.3-283.el6.x86_64.rpm"
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
">mythtv-0.24.3-283.el6.x86_64.rpm</a><br>
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<pre wrap="">>> Perhaps another way of asking the question would be how would you do an
>> upgrade from one server to another, while upgrading OS versions and
>> trying to maintain all your myth DB information?
> Easiest/safest way is to be able to upgrade the OS while keeping
> MythTV and MySQL versions the same and then upgrade those after
> verifying that everything works as expected on the new OS.
So your saying install the new machine, but install the older versions
of mythtv? This is a new install and unfortunately an in place upgrade
from 5.8 doesn't appear to be supported, or at least thats my
understanding of what I have read.
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You can always attempt to do that. I had to do it when I built a
Fedora 17 machine before the RPMs had been built. Fedora 16 RPMs
ran just fine fo a month or more. No guarantee with major
versions of RHEL since so many of the underpinnings have been
changed. I remember having to jack around with getting all of the
dependencies installed since yum --releasever=16 install mythtv
failed to bring them all in. The good news is the version of yum
shipped with RHEL6 does support --releasever.<br>
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However, this isn't what I meant. What I meant is that it's
always safest to build out the new OS to run the same VERSIONS of
mythtv and mysql as the old system...provided the binaries are
available. It appears you are in luck with MythTV based on the
repo data I pasted above. MySQL is going to be more of an upgrade
since I see 5.0.95 in the CentOS 5.8 repository and 5.1.61 in the
CentOS 6.3 repository. You might want to take a look at MySQL
release notes to see if you need to do anything to prepare the
database for the newer version.<br>
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Only after I had that all ironed out would I consider upgrading
MythTV to 0.25+<br>
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Scott<br>
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Thanks for the info Scott. I'm more than happy to stay with .24.3.
My only thought was if I'm going to go through the process of
building a new machine I figured I would get it as up to date as
possible. With 2 little kids I tend to take the "dont fix what
isn't broke" method. You would be surprised how mad a 4 and 7 year
old can get when you take away their videos :)<br>
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At this point I'm thinking I'm going to go to 6.3, but stick with
the .24 version. I'm not as worried about MySQL, but will definitely
go read the release notes.<br>
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Wish me luck!<br>
<br>
Larry<br>
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