[mythtv-users] Deciding when to upgrade ATrpms

Sat Nov 25 17:14:57 UTC 2006

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:21:51AM -0600, jim scott wrote:
> I've been running mythtv-0.20 on FC5 for a couple weeks now using the
> ATrpms. Everything is working good enough for me. I see that there are new
> packages available as of yesterday:
> mythtv-0.20-147.fc5.at.i386.rpm<http://dl.atrpms.net/all/mythtv-0.20-147.fc5.at.i386.rpm>.
> When I choose the "more" option on the ATrpms page I get a 404
> error.

Yes, the web site scripts aren't in good shape. Almost noone used the
web browsing anymore, so they are degenerating :/
They will eventually be fixed or replaced with something else, but
that's a very low priority.

> As the FAQ says, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

That's a wise saying.

> I don't see any recent posts from Axel on this list.

How more recent do you want me to have posted?

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> Since Axel's RPMs work so well, do users generally upgrade whenever
> new packages are available? Or is there someplace I can look to see
> what improvements are included in the 147 release? Thanks.

There is a changelog in the packages, but in 95% of all cases it will
contain "updated to svn fixes revision soandso". E.g. new packages
usually mean new fixes from the -fixes branch. You should therefore
monitor the fixes branch and make your upgrading dependent on that.

In general, if the packages appear in atrpms-stable, then they are the
recommended ones to use. More experimental changes land in
atrpms-testing or even atrpms-bleeding (there will soon be svn trunk
builds there, *never* use these for production, only for helping
developers in testing and bug reporting).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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