[mythtvnz] Upgrade/Reinstall tips

[Criggie]

Rob Connolly wrote, On 09/24/2013 09:56 AM:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:51:54PM +1200, criggie wrote:
>> PFFT  two years?   Mine was installed in 2005 and the only two
>> annoying things are the architecture is i386 and the disks are
>> getting old.  sda is at 86159 power on hours.
>> Actually now I think about it, none of the hardware other than one
>> tuner card is in common with the original backend box.
>>
> I'm going to assume thats an Arch system also. If so I'm impressed. I
> just didn't keep up well with all the updates, so when I did try to
> update the large number of changes always killed something. Also, pacman
> does not support partial updates, so even adding a package became
> difficult after a while.
>
> That said, the current setup is pretty damn stable if you just leave it
> alone (but I don't want to do that, since it's absolutely NOT an
> appliance!).
>


Nope - plain pure vanilla Debian, with the -multimedia packages for myth.

The other server started with Debian potato in 2001, so that's been 12 
years of no reinstalls.
The only downside is neither is running 64 bit, but that's no big deal.


-- 
Criggie

http://criggie.org.nz/