[mythtv-users] Myth Update

[Meatwad]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2007, at 2:34 PM, NoName Anonymous wrote:
> 
>> That's the problem.  As far as I know I DID use the supported 
>> proceedure.  I used "yum -y upgrade mythtv-suite" which is exactly 
>> what has been stated.  That said there was nothing to upgrade and I 
>> knew that was false because I needed the Schedules Direct additions.  
> 
> As far as I'm aware, when using ATrpms, the only supported method of 
> upgrade is yum upgrade. Despite what it says on other people's website 
> for stuff that works for them.

Please correct me if things have changed but I seem to recall that 
Axel's standard response to unresolvable dependency issues with apt and 
yum is to try Smart:

'yum install smart smart-gui'

...should get you started. Assuming you have installed 
atrpms-package-config from his repo, the first time you run Smart it 
indicates that new channels have been found and asks if you want to 
include them in your Smart sources. Keep in mind that if your rpm config 
has been updated piecemeal using experimentation, the integrity may be 
such that backing up mythconverg and starting over may be best. Just 
remember to install Smart immediately before the howto has you issue 
thew 'yum update' command. Then use Smart from there on out. Perhaps you 
might address this problem on the atrpms-users list before trying such a 
drastic measure.

In addition to being much faster than yum's, Smart's depsolver seems to 
be much more robust at solving the tricky situations. My first attempts 
at x86_64 under FC4 using yum were unsuccessful. After the initial 
install and issuing the big update, yum would churn for about an hour 
and a half and then nothing. I made the switch to Smart and haven't 
looked back. It also handles upgradeable kernels far more gracefully 
than yum.

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mw