[mythtv-users] Re: Upgrading from RH9 to FC1 via ATrpms for Myth

Alan Snyder ax763 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 23 15:28:36 EST 2004


> > I have my system running Myth on RedHat 9 using Jarod Wilson's 
> > instructions. I'm planning to upgrade to Fedora Core 1 to 
> get the M179 
> > and low latency patches.
> > 
> > Can I just install FC1 on top of my current system starting 
> with the 
> > atrpms-kickstart instructions in section 6 of Jarod's 
> excellent guide?
> 
> In principle yes, there will be some problems for perl and 
> sendmail IIRC, but it is doable. I suggest an apt-get upgrade 
> first and then the apt-get dist-upgrade. In fact most of my 
> FC1 systems haven been smoothly upgraded from RH9 that way.
> 
> Or you can use the FC1 CDs and upgrade the system, and then 
> use the atrpms-package-config package (or simply edit the 
> sources.list). The FC1 upgrade is taking care of some special 
> issues like the perl/sendmail stuff.

Axel, does this mean that for an FC1 system installed according to Jarod's
guide (though upgraded to CVS later), with a 2.4.xx kernel, apt-get
dist-upgrade is safe?



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