[mythtv-users] Upgrade advice - JYA to mythbuntu auto-builds

[Andre]

On 1 Apr 2010, at 02:42, Chris Adams wrote:

>> I had a few gotchas, it seems jya's packages show up as 2:0.22 which apt thinks is newer than 0.23 so that was a pain. I upgraded a couple of backends and three frontends, same problem on each, apt didn't want to upgrade anything even after commenting out the jya repo and trying again.
> 
> Yep, same thing I saw. He would've done it on purpose to make double
> sure the packages stomped on mythbuntu's base when you first add his
> repo.
> 
>> What I did was to add the mythbuntu 0.23 weekly builds repository, disable the jya repository, apt-get update, then manually apt-get remove all the mythtv packages, doesn't really matter everything is in the database after all.
>> I then installed mythtv, or mythtv-frontend or mythtv-backend and mythtv-themes as appropriate.
> 
> That's what I was thinking of, but was afraid the mythconverg database
> would be killed as part of removing mythtv-database. I've backed it up
> though, so.. what's the worst that can happen, I'll restore it and let
> myth upgrade it :)
> 
> I was considering forcing a downgrade (apt-get install
> package=version) but it was going to downgrade more other packages
> than I was willing to take a risk on, so I haven't done anything just
> yet..

I tried that too, It looked like it had worked, at first.... that was when I discovered I was going to need to remove all the mythtv packages, maybe I removed more that I needed to but it was annoying me by then!

Database didn't go anywhere when I removed it's package, it's very nice when the new system comes up all configured the way the old one was, in fact mine started a recording straight away :-)

Thanks to Jean Yves from me too, his vdpau studio level patches were what made me start using mythfrontend for daily TV. I think those patches were his rather than a backport?

Andre