[mythtv-users] Upgrading MythTV & Ubuntu at the same time: any benefits?

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Thu Apr 12 13:37:40 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:00 AM, John Veness
<John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 00:59, Ian Evans wrote:
>>
>> I currently run .24-fixes and Mythbuntu 10.10. Since I plan to upgrade
>> to .25 shortly are there pros and cons to moving to the latest
>> underlying Mythbuntu release as well, which at this time is 11.10? Are
>> there any things in the latest Ubuntu that will make life easier for
>> me or .25?
>
>
> I also have Ubuntu 10.10 on my combined BE/FE with MythTV 0.24-fixes. 10.10
> will not receive a MythTV 0.25 upgrade from the Mythbuntu repos,
> unfortunately (see http://www.mythbuntu.org/mythtv/0.25). Annoyingly, if I
> had stuck with my previously-installed 10.04 (the previous LTS version of
> Ubuntu), I could have upgraded to MythTV 0.25 without changing my Ubuntu
> version! I don't wish to install a non-packaged version of MythTV.
>
> My current plan is to upgrade in small-ish steps. E.g. upgrade to Ubuntu
> 11.04, still with MythTV 0.24. Test for a few days. Then upgrade either to
> MythTV 0.25, or upgrade Ubuntu to 11.10 (but not at the same time). Test for
> a few days again.
>
> Eventually I hope to be on Ubuntu 12.04 with MythTV 0.25. 12.04 is an LTS
> version of Ubuntu, so hopefully I would be able to stick with that for a
> couple of years, while still receiving packaged versions of MythTV 0.26,
> 0.27... from the Mythbuntu repos.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> --
> John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T
>
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http://mythbuntu.org/repos seems pretty clear (Maybe it's cause I
wrote it, please let me know if it's not), but you get two mythtv
versions for non LTS releases and every mythtv release for a 2 year
span on LTS releases.

*How long will you keep doing builds for my version of Ubuntu?
  *If your version of Ubuntu is an LTS release, you can expect to have
any MythTV version released up until the next Ubuntu LTS available to
you.
  *If your version of Ubuntu is a standard release, you will have the
version of MythTV that was available in that release as well as one
more afterward.  So if the release launched with 0.23, you will have
0.23 and 0.24 available to you.


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