[mythtvnz] Upgrade/Reinstall tips

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com>wrote:

> +1 for mythbuntu if only for the ppa's makes upgrading from 0.25, 0.26 to
> 0.27 very easy
>
> Using raspbmc on an raspberry pi the myth plugin works well, can't say I
> use the scheduler though
>


I went from 0.25 to 0.27 in my house on Saturday. On the mythbuntu 12.04
machines the update was seamless:

1. (backend only) run /etc/cron.weekly/mythtv-database to make a backup of
the dB. Stop the backend with sudo service mythtv-backend stop

2. ssh -Y into the machine and run gksudo mythbuntu-control-centre, choose
0.27 in the repositories tab and apply, then quit. Stop the frontend.

3. Using ssh run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -V to
get the new versions (-V gives you a sanity check on versions. dist-upgrade
is needed to get the new myth-lib version.

4. Reboot the backend  machine and check it has upgraded the database OK.
reboot the other machines.

5. In my case recompile my remote receiver's driver as there was a new
kernel installed, and I haven't been bothered creating a proper dkms
solution.

On the machines lingering on 10.04 I did a freesh install of mythbuntu
12.04 and upgraded from there.


>
> On 24 September 2013 09:56, Rob Connolly <rob at webworxshop.com> wrote:
>
>> 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!).
>>
>> >
>> > Pick your battles - install a distro and myth on the backend
>> > separately to faffing with xbmc.
>> >
>> > If you can install to a different disk (and save your original root
>> > disk) then a restore is as easy as changing disks.
>> >
>> > Set aside a whole day, make sure there's no lotto draw or anything
>> > TV boredcast that swmbo needs to see.
>> >
>> > And if it all goes suspiciously well, something's broken AND hiding
>> > from you.
>> >
>> > Cynical?  Yes - its a geek occupational hazard.
>> >
>>
>> Well, I actually have closer to three days available. So hopefully
>> enough time to get everything running!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
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