[mythtv-users] Upgrading question
Anthony Giggins
seven at seven.dorksville.net
Thu Nov 22 21:37:34 UTC 2007
> Sean Goodpasture wrote:
>> On Nov 21, 2007 8:09 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net
>> <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>> William Munson wrote:
>> > Harry Devine wrote:
>> >> I was thinking about upgrading my Myth box to the latest version,
>> >> mainly because I'd like to get the updated Mythweather. I was
>> >> looking around on Axel's atrpms.net <http://atrpms.net/> site
>> and saw that the latest
>> >> packages available for FC6 are 0.20.2-168.fc6. So, I checked my
>> >> versions and found the following:
>> >> mythfrontend -> 0.20.2-163.fc6
>> >> mythbackend -> 02.20.2-163.fc6
>> >>
>> >> With this, I have 2 questions: 1) Whats the proper way to
>> upgrade
>> >> my system? Will 'yum update mythtv' work? 2) How can I
>> determine
>> >> the plugins versions? Will updating via yum also update the
>> plugins?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Harry
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > FC6 is end-of-life and no longer updated. I had no serious
>> problems
>> > switching to F8 although the switch did redo where the various
>> drives
>> > mapped. Not a big deal but you should be aware of it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> I installed my box with Mythdora, so I'll have to check if they
>> have any
>> updates for F8. If not, how did you upgrade? Did you upgrade to a
>> stock F8 installation, then add Myth afterwards? Did you pull in
>> the
>> latest packages from atrpms? I assume that I'd have to tuck my
>> database
>> away somewhere if I went this route, correct?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harry
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>> Since you used Mythdora, just run yum upgrade \*myth\* and you'll get
>> something new :-)
> I just tried that and got error messages similar to the following (after
> all the upgraded packages were downloaded):
>
> "file /usr/include/mythtv/util.h from install of
> mythtv-devel-0.20.2-169.fc6 conflicts with file from package
> libmyth-devel-0.20.1-156.3.md4"
>
> One thing that I didn't do was stop either the frontend or backend (I'm
> doing this via an SSH connection). This probably matters to some
> extent, but do you have any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
Or wait for the next version of Mythdora to be released which from what
I've been told will be based on Fedora 8 or possibly a dual release also
based on Centos.
Anthony
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