[mythtv-users] Upgrading question

Sean Goodpasture goofygrin at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 03:22:01 UTC 2007


On Nov 21, 2007 8:09 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:

> William Munson wrote:
> > Harry Devine wrote:
> >> I was thinking about upgrading my Myth box to the latest version,
> >> mainly because I'd like to get the updated Mythweather.  I was
> >> looking around on Axel's atrpms.net site and saw that the latest
> >> packages available for FC6 are 0.20.2-168.fc6.  So, I checked my
> >> versions and found the following:
> >>     mythfrontend -> 0.20.2-163.fc6
> >>     mythbackend -> 02.20.2-163.fc6
> >>
> >> With this, I have 2 questions:  1)  Whats the proper way to upgrade
> >> my system?  Will 'yum update mythtv' work?  2)  How can I determine
> >> the plugins versions?  Will updating via yum also update the plugins?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Harry
> >>
> >>
> >
> > FC6 is end-of-life and no longer updated. I had no serious problems
> > switching to F8 although the switch did redo where the various drives
> > mapped. Not a big deal but you should be aware of it.
> >
> >
> >
> I installed my box with Mythdora, so I'll have to check if they have any
> updates for F8.  If not, how did you upgrade?  Did you upgrade to a
> stock F8 installation, then add Myth afterwards?  Did you pull in the
> latest packages from atrpms?  I assume that I'd have to tuck my database
> away somewhere if I went this route, correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
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Since you used Mythdora, just run yum upgrade \*myth\* and you'll get
something new :-)
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