[mythtv-users] Advice on upgrading to the latest release version

[Jason Cooper]

Matt (matt at solecize.com) wrote:
> I'm still running version .8
> 
> Is there anything that I should know before I upgrade to the latest 
> release version?  Will I loose the information that is in my database? 
> Along those lines, are there any special steps that I have to take in 
> oder to keep the information that is in my DB?  I realize that the newer 
> versions have more DB fields, but I don't know anything about migrating 
> the data.   Is it all done automagically or non-destructively?
> 
> I glanced at the docs and they appeared to be very similar to the way 
> they were at the time that I installed .8 ,so I'm sorry if this is 
> already covered in the docs.

As opposed to 'mysql < mc.sql' use the other files in the mythtv-0.10/database/ 
directory.  The labelling is pretty straight forward. *8v)  

This'll do a non-destructive upgrade of your database.

Cooper.