[mythtv-users] Upgrading (the hard way, as usual)

[Jay Ashworth]

I'm about to build an upgrade drive for my sis's combined FE/BE.  My 
current configuration is listed below, and after an XFS crash back before 
Christmas, which one of the XFS devs was very kind to help me diagnose and
repair, we've had some trouble with skipping playback of a couple types
which only happens if we are *not* recording; when something's recording,
playback is fine.

Pam wasn't all that thrilled that I missed the Big Playlist Bug in either
.23 or .23-fixes, and I know that's still not fixed in .24-fixes, but it's
Summer.  This is when I upgrade.

You'll see a bunch of partitions on one of the Media drives below; that was
my old boot drive; the new one, as you can see, has no media on it; I've
learned.  :-)

The new boot drive will replace the old one.

The question here is this: I've been using SuSE because that's the distro
I know well, having spent approximately a billion and six hours working with
it back to 8.3 or something.  Even though I know it well, this is mostly
a dedicated box, and I don't especially object to switching to a packaged
distro, as long as I can import my recordings and rules from the old DB
install, via dump-reload-upgrade or whatever.

Does anyone think that I'd be much better served by doing it that way?

Or should I just backup all my binaries and DB and install .24-f?  And
is anyone cutting RPMs for it?  Does anyone know if recorded got revved
between those 2 releases (do we have a table of that anywhere?)

And I had to do that by hand; did anyone ever package a tech support script
for Myth that extracts all the relevant stuff?

Cheers,
-- jra

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OS: SuSE 11.3

Kernel: Linux plaintain 2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-09-20 15:27:38 +0200 i686 athlon i386 from YoU

Myth: branches/release-0-23-fixes [26835] www.mythtv.org

from RPMs:

mythgallery-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
libmyth-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythvideo-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythtv-0_23-base-themes-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.noarch
mythtv-0_23-common-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythmusic-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythnetvision-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythtv-0_23-frontend-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythgame-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythtv-0_23-setup-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythmovies-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mytharchive-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythtv-0_23-docs-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythbrowser-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythweb-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythnews-0_23-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586
mythtv-0_23-backend-0.23.1-0.pm.2.1.i586

Tuners: Hauppauge 150, 250, 450

X: Xorg 1.8.0 from RPM: xorg-x11-server-7.5_1.8.0-10.3.1.i586

VGA: Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M10) NQ (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4e51)

Drives: 

sda: ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD040GJ, WY100-33, max UDMA7 (boot)
/dev/sda1            1011M   24M  936M   3% /boot                (ext2)
/dev/sda2              20G   16G  3.7G  81% /                    (ext4)
/dev/sda5             3.0G  180M  2.7G   7% /var/log             (ext4)
/dev/sda6              12G  1.1G  9.5G  11% /appl                (ext4)

sdb: ata2.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD15, max UDMA/133
/dev/sdb1             932G  927G  5.2G 100% /appl/media3         (xfs)

sdc: ata4.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330, JKAOA3EA, max UDMA/133
/dev/sdc1             1.9T  1.8T   20G  99% /appl/media4         (xfs)

sdd: ata7.00: ATA-7: ST3500641AV, 3.ACP, max UDMA/100
/dev/sdd1              30G   18G   12G  61% /appl/oldsys/root    (ext3)
/dev/sdd5             2.0G  256M  1.7G  14% /appl/oldsys/varlog  (ext3)
/dev/sdd6              32G   14G   16G  47% /appl/oldsys/appl    (ext3)
/dev/sdd7             400G  393G  7.0G  99% /appl/media          (xfs)

sde: ata7.01: ATA-7: ST3400620A, 3.AAE, max UDMA/100
/dev/sde1             373G  369G  4.3G  99% /appl/media2         (xfs)



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