[mythtv-users] Ubuntu Edgy -> Feisty upgrade report

[Bill Williamson]

On 5/2/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-05 at 19:17 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> >> It just seems to me that an awful lot of problems I have had getting
> >> Myth systems as well as others up and running turn out to be due to
> >> changes that have been made in the kernel between the time some software
> >> was written and the latest kernel came out.
>
> >
> > This dead horse is pretty well beaten now I think.
>
> Yes, I'll keep this as short as possible.
>
> I should not have to live on the "bleeding edge" in order to get the
> latest security or bug fixes on a kernel that can run MythTV, but it
> seems that to get them I must do so. (2.4 can't run most Myth-related
> drivers).
>
> The change renders incorrect many many tutorials, WiKis, howtos, guides,
> published books etc. There is no way to tell from those documents that
> the information they contain is likely to have changed. Many people will
> be seeking assistance from the net who otherwise might not have had to.
> The effort to correct all of that documentation vastly exceeds the work
> to change the kernel itself. The change might seem trivial but it can
> render a system unusable.
>
> The change could have been made in such a way as to not confuse and
> confound anyone trying to RTFM.
>
> The "old way" of doing things would not have created this problem.


Under the old way, though, you wouldn't be getting IVTV updates/etc in
the stable stream...  So you'd be running the unstable kernel.