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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>my MythTV system runs for a long time now on semi-heavy duty and
provides excellent service. Thanks to all people that ever
participated in making this possible!</p>
<p>While I run this system for a long time in a version-freezed
state on purpose, I am planning to upgrade now. The reason for the
version freeze was the demand of time and skills, any upgrade
requested from me - as I am not good in this and always struggled
with these challenges, I decided to stop doing any upgrades.</p>
<p>Now I wonder of the best upgrade strategy:</p>
<ol>
<li>16.04 --> 0.28 --> 0.29<br>
</li>
<li>0.28 --> 16.04 --> 0.29</li>
<li>0.28 --> 0.29 --> 16.04</li>
<li>16.04 --> 0.29</li>
<li>0.29 --> 16.04</li>
</ol>
<p>where:</p>
<ul>
<li>16.04 means upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04</li>
<li>0.28 means upgrading to MythTV 0.28</li>
<li>0.29 means upgrading to MythTV 0.29</li>
</ul>
<p>each from the respective system state.</p>
<p>Bringing the current system to the most recent state of 14.04.x
always is the prerequisite step zero, of course.</p>
<p>Pausing or stopping at one intermediate step are options as well,
if there are some reasons.</p>
<p>As for all my upgrades on all of my systems, I will do a full
system backup on an external ssd prior to the upgrade process (and
will test if the system is able to directly boot from this
backup), cause loosing MythTV services would be a medium
catastrophe! ;-)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any recommendations, experiences or
warnings, regarding the upgrade procedure from these versions
and/or when having my hardware devices (see below).<br>
</p>
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Nicolas
MythTV fixes/0.27 [v0.27.4-30-g3b43903]
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-45-generic x86_64)
Digital Devices GmbH Octopus DVB Adapter via ddbridge kernel module
15c2:0036 SoundGraph Inc. LC16M VFD Display/IR Receiver (imon) via LIRC/devinput
Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
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