[mythtv-users] Is it a good time to upgrade from Mythbuntu 9.10 to 10.xx?

[John Hoyt]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:43 PM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> > Just did mine last night.  Nothing alarming to report.
> >
> > Of course, I didn't really gain anything either.  I was already running
> the
> > latest from the .23 fixes PPA, so nothing in myth changed.
> >
> > So, if you have no reason to upgrade... then your doing it because your
> > bored and really don't mind if something breaks... at least that's my
> > excuse.  I think the wife would have strangled me if I had broken
> something
> > though... so upgrading was a pretty stupid thing to do in my case.  But
> at
> > least the upgrade was flawless.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:55 PM, <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have my BE and two FEs configured, working, and all happy on Mythbuntu
> >> 9.10 and  2:0.23.0+fixes25595.  I'm terrified at the prospect of
> allowing
> >> the upgrade to Mythbuntu 10.xx to occur at the risk of messing it all
> up.
> >>
> >> I've seen some traffic over the last few months about stuff breaking,
> >> wanted to make sure I am forewarned.
> >>
> >> I don't use HD-PVR (yet).  Just IguanaIR+STBs, VDPAU, schedules direct.
> >>
> >> Aside from as much backing up as I can stand (DB and OS), any tips or
> >> gotchas to worry about?
> >>
> >> TIA!
> >> _______________________________________________
>
> I think now is as good a time as any. Given the 6 month release cycle
> for Ubuntu and the accelerated release schedule for MythTV, I wouldn't
> want to get too far behind on OS updates.
>
> About two months ago I migrated to 10.04 from 8.04 and let me tell
> you, I don't want to get that far behind again. Now that I've got a
> nice clean system I'll be able to keep up with dist-upgrades without
> much fuss.
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I upgrade my frontend (Mythbuntu 9.10 i386) 4 weeks ago and backend
(Mythbuntu 9.10 amd64) this weekend.  Both upgrades went off without a
hitch.
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