[mythtv-users] Fedora Core 4 upgrade recomendations

David George david at thegeorges.us
Wed Feb 6 14:56:19 UTC 2008


On 02/06/2008 08:16 AM, Paul Netherwood wrote:
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> Hi
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>  
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> I’m currently running MythTV 0.19 on Fedora Core 4 and want to upgrade 
> both MythTV and Fedora to the latest. I have a number of choices:
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>    1. Upgrade via yum
>    2. Upgrade via Fedora installation DVD’s doing each release in turn
>       as recommended by fedora (which would be 4 upgrades of core 4 to
>       core 5 to core 6 to core 7 to core 8!)
>    3. Start all over with a fresh install of core 8 and reinstall MythTV
>    4. Go for the latest MythDora installation
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>  
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> Upgrades will hopefully preserve my MythTV installation which I can 
> then upgrade with yum. A fresh install means I have to go through the 
> whole MythTV install process again.
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> Any thoughts?
>

Definitely go for the fresh install.  Going from FC 4 to Fedora 8 is an 
awful lot of upgrades.  I have gone from FC 6 directly to Fedora 8, but 
it was slightly painful.  Not too bad, had to remove some packages and 
do some things manually to get around conflicts, but I don't recommend 
it.  Once you are on Fedora 8 though, yum upgrades should be relatively 
straight forward.  I have used yum updates since FC6 to go to F7 and 
from F7 to F8 without any issues.

For the future here is the link I use to upgrade: 
http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/133/upgrading-from-fedora-7-to-fedora-8-with-yum/
Here is the official Fedora one (which lists caveats and describes 
upgrading older versions also): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

-- 
David



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