[mythtv-users] options for upgrade from 0.21

[John Pilkington]

On 09/03/2014 07:59 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:22:02 PM Joseph Fry wrote:
>>>>> I knew this day was coming... My trusty Myth box, nearly 8 years
>>>>> old,
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone with experience upgrading from a way-old Myth?
>>>>
>>>> Just do an iterative upgrade... 0.23, 0.25, 0.27.... should be pretty
>>>> flawless as far as upgrading the critical data (recording history).
>>>> Then I would do a full DB backup (just in case) and a partial DB
>>>> backup (for restoring to the new system).
>>>
>>> Dang, forgot to mention one (critical) part: the old box is running
>>> Fedora 9 (pre-Core days) with a /boot too small to upgrade, or I would
>>> have way back. And could I even get RPMs for 0.23 for it?
>>>
>>> So what I'd have to do is install Fedora-something on the new machine
>>> and do the Backup/Restore to it, and then continue upgrading Myth on
>>> it.
>> You don't necessarily need to upgrade Fedora to update myth (you may need
>> to build from source, and you may have dependency issues though).
>>
>> You could probably get away with creating a VM on another system,
>> installing a linux distro of your choice that included Mythtv 0.21, then
>> upgrading from there... just to get the schema where it should be.
>
>
> This sounds like the most-promising route. I remember looking into it a
> year ago but got a little bewildered trying to figure out what combination
> of Fedora and 3rd-party repos to use to get a new-old working 0.21 to
> restore my backup DB into.
>
> Fedora is the way I want to go, I have lots of experience. What's the last
> Fedora to have 0.21 support in the repos I'd need?

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/9/i386/mythtv-0.21-16.fc9.i386.rpm
.... perhaps ???
>
> By chance is there a way I could capture my current setup in a VM like I've
> done with VMWare and a couple Windows boxes before? Even if I could use it
> in a KVM.
>