[mythtv-users] Upgrade simplicity

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 04:30:48 UTC 2016


On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net
> wrote:

>
>
> On 14 February 2016 at 04:16, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Mythizens, as I consider upgrading to the next Ubuntu release
>> I'm wondering if there is a more elegant way than previous efforts. Is it
>> possible, say to install a fresh ubuntu 14.04 lts on a second partition of
>> my OS drive add MythTv then run "diff" on sda1 and sda2 to extract just the
>> tweaks I've implemented, giving me a recipe for tweaking 16.04 lts? Or is
>> there a better way? TIA  Daryl
>>
>>
> Given you'll have many binary file differences a diff between 12.04 &
> 14.04 (or 16.04 when its released) will practically not be viable, perhaps
> dd your OS partition to a second partition or a new drive? and then mount
> this along side your new install to copy any required tweaks.
>
> Although having recently done a Dist upgrade from 12.04 to 14:04, I must
> say that everything pretty much just worked and all tweaks carried over.
> The only major issue I had was my own doing as I run my OS on a RAID 1
> mirror and the dist upgrade screwed up the boot loader as this is not a
> usual ubuntu option but this was easily repaired with the excellent
> Boot-Repair <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair> utility from
> a live CD, they only other issue I had was I needed to install was
> Handbrake from their 3rd party ppa so my transcoding user jobs worked
> correctly as the default handbrake from the ubuntu repos did not have the
> correct audio codecs enabled.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony
>
>
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I'm currently using 14.04 with a tweaked Mythtv and intended to diff
against a fresh 14.04 with Mythtv (no tweaks), which would give tweaks for
a fresh 16.04 when it arrives. The last attempt, more than a year ago,
upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 was totally inoperable.
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