[mythtv-users] Upgrade to 0.27

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
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> Most end users will be relying on packagers' scripts to handle this.

And that *can* end up being a badness.

> apt-get dist-upgrade, then everything is already up, running, and at
> least the backend part of the database schema is already done.

Except, of course, if the database upgrade fails, and then those
same users may have no idea why their backend is not starting,
and cannot start.

There are arguments that suggest that if the packagers really
cared about their users experience they would insure that their
upgrades stopped the services and disabled auto-restart to
insure that the user was aware of what is going on by having
to manually invoke an upgrade script (which could re-enable
auto-restart, etc.)

Gary