[mythtv-users] upgrade FC4->FC6 Any issues to be aware of?
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Fri Jan 26 21:04:11 UTC 2007
On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has no one tries this yet?
>>
>
> I've done this upgrade (FC4 -> FC6) via yum. There were a few
> things that I had to fix manually, but nothing major. If you're
> very comfortable w/ yum / rpm / linux admin, upgrade via yum
> shouldn't be an issue. Most likely the upgrade from CD would have
> actually been easier, but I didn't want to waste time downloading
> the CDs.
>
> It may be possible to do the OS Core upgrade in tandem w/ the
> ATRpms upgrade, but I just dumped my DB, removed the myth RPMS,
> upgraded the OS, and then did the yum install mythtv-suite and
> reloaded the DB.
I did them in tandem upgrading from FC5 to FC6 w/o a problem on both
my master backend and primary frontend. Minor issues here and there
(more so on the x86_64 frontend, due to multilib support changes from
FC5 to FC6), but no major problems.
> The only issue that I still have is that for some reason it doesn't
> detect inserted DVDs / CDs automatically. I'll probably mess with
> that one of these days, but it's not a show stopper, so I haven't
> spent the time.
I don't use any DVD/CD stuff on my myth box, but I'd assume this is
due to gnome-mount and hal. FC6 mounts every disc by name at /media/
<disc-name>, rather than at /media/<drive-name>. (i.e., your
GREAT_MOVIE dvd gets mounted at /media/GREAT_MOVIE, rather than at /
media/dvd-rom now, and Myth is expecting a static mount location for
its media monitoring bits, iirc. At least, that'd be the case under
Gnome, not entirely sure what happens under other desktop
environments anymore...
--jarod
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