[mythtv-users] successful upgrades to ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04?

[Jay Foster]

On 8/1/2018 9:25 AM, Jason Zarin wrote:
> Anyone make the leap yet?
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> So last time I went through this process (14.04 --> 16.04) it was a 
> total unmitigated disaster as nothing worked afterwards. Apparently 
> the combination of switching to systemd and a major upgrade to a new 
> version of mysql just broke everything. I restored from backup and 
> stayed on 14 for a while longer. waited until a slow weekend to do a 
> complete 16.04 install from scratch and restored all the recordings 
> and mythtv database and everything has been smooth sailing ever since.
>
> Hopefully with fewer drastic changes under the hood, in-place 
> upgrading to 18.04.1 will be less dramatic....
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> But what would be the best way to go about it given that the mythtv 
> PPA is not part of the ubuntu distribution?
>
> Options:
>
> 1. do an in-place do-release-upgrade, re-add the mythbuntu PPA 
> afterwards and hope for the best?
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> 2. remove the mythbuntu PPA before doing the upgrade, 
> do-release-upgrade, and re-add the ppa?
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> 3. apt remove (or purge?) mythtv* and other myth-related packages 
> before doing the upgrade, do-release-upgrade, add the PPA and 
> reinstall all the packages?
>
> or 4. LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE and stay on 16.04 until 2021.
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> Thanks
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Option 4.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  I'm still using Mythbuntu 
14.04 with 0.28.  I only upgraded from 0.27 because something stopped 
working (meta data lookups I think).  As a bonus, 0.28 came with H.265 
support.  I have a second frontend (NUC) that uses 16.04 with 0.28, but 
that was so I could get updated video drivers to support VAAPI which was 
needed with the 0.28 update (0.27 was fine on the NUC without it).
Jay
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