<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Sunday 07 Nov 2010, Jarod Wilson wrote:<br>
> On Nov 7, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Stephen Kitchener wrote:<br>
> > Hi List,<br>
> ><br>
> > I wonder if anybody has done this... ?<br>
> ><br>
> > I find that I am behind on two counts and would like to upgrade to mythtv<br>
> > 0.24 and I think that I am right that I also need to go to fedora 14 at<br>
> > the same time as mythtv is not supported on anything else.<br>
><br>
> Uh. What?<br>
><br>
> MythTV 0.24 will run on Fedora 12 just fine. It just might not be<br>
> pre-packaged in the repo(s) you're using. However, Fedora 12 does go<br>
> end-of-life shortly, so updating to F14 isn't such a bad idea anyway. (Or<br>
> even better, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6). :)<br>
><br>
> > Would the correct sequence be to upgrade to 0.23 first under fedora 12<br>
> > (which I am currently running), then to upgrade to Fedora 14 and then<br>
> > upgrade the mythtv software.<br>
><br>
> Not sure there is a "correct" sequence here. Small, incremental upgrades,<br>
> testing for ongoing functionality along the way, are definitely less<br>
> error-prone than a large upgrade jump. So yeah, I'd probably say upgrade<br>
> mythtv first, make sure it still works, then move on to the distro upgrade.<br>
> Technically, Fedora doesn't support skipping ahead two releases, but it<br>
> *should* work out just fine. (Famous last words).<br>
><br>
> > Does the new 0.24 appear under yum after I have changed repos ??<br>
><br>
> Assuming you're using RPM Fusion for your packages, then yes.<br>
><br>
> > What I want to do is to be able to keep the data that is currently in the<br>
> > mysql database. I am keeping daily exports of the database, so should be<br>
> > ok in that respect. I am using mythconverg_backup.pl from cron to export<br>
> > this, this should be enough I hope ?<br>
><br>
> Yep, should be fine. I've done rolling upgrades through quite a number of<br>
> Fedora and MythTV releases w/the same database for several years now.<br>
><br>
> Today is actually the day I finally drop my own Fedora 12 backend though,<br>
> replacing it with a RHEL6 backend...<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Sorry, yes I should have said that I knew that Fedora 12 was to be EOL'd very soon, which is why I said that it wouldn't run, but I should have said that it (the new Mythtv 0.24) wouldn't be available for F12, as it wouldn't have made sense to support it on a Version of OS that wasn't being updated.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I should have said that I am using atrpm's for the mythtv part of the system.<br>
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