[mythtv-users] Wiki Reminder: take notes when you upgrade

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:57:45PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 9/12/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:40:43PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:16:28PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > > > 0.19-fixes -> 0.20 on Debian
> > > > download tarballs
> > > > extract
> > > > run configure
> > > > run qmake
> > > > run make
> > > > shutdown backend
> > > > backup db
> > > > run make install
> > > > restart backend
> > > >
> > > > I'll leave writing the page to someone that encounters a problem.
> > >
> > > Showoff.  :-)
> >
> > And alas, I missed the *useful* question.  I don't see that you ran
> > mythsetup in there.  Do we not need to do that before restarting
> > backend?  Or is it automatic now?
> 
> I didn't. I just started the backend up and everything worked.  I also
> managed to do so in between recordings, didn't miss a thing ;-) (good
> work devs!)
> 
> I was running the 0.19-fixes branch and upgraded to 0.20 SVN a few
> days after Isaac called for the freeze. But beyond this, the rest of
> my process was that. No new dependencies needed to be filled and
> everything compiled fine.

Oh.  Then you had already *done* whatever work mythsetup does, likely.

People upgrading from further back will need to run it, I'd suspect.

> I also did this on my main frontend and my bedroom frontend, both of
> which compiled fine, and run fine. Though I don't run remote backends
> on them.
> 
> The Gentoo upgrade on the wiki is basically the same, he goes through
> emerge, I compile "by hand", but his process is the same, and IIRC the
> process to backup the db is already on the wiki.

It is.

Cheers,
-- jra
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