[mythtvnz] Upgrade/Reinstall tips

[Rob Connolly]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:56:11AM +1200, Criggie wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well, this is why I'm moving to Debian!

Cheers,

Rob

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