[mythtvnz] Mythbuntu 16.04 user experiences

[Paulgir]

>
> I have not found anything else that is a problem, so far.  I am sure
> you can upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS if you do it in two steps
> by upgrading to 14.04 first.  With an SSD that might not take too long
> to do so it could be worth trying.  Running 12.04 from an SSD is
> probably not a good thing to try as it does not have full support for
> SSDs.  If the SSD is a SATA one, it will likely work, but I think
> there will not be any fstrim support.  If the SSD is NVME (PCIe), it
> likely will not have the right drivers.  Even with 16.04, the version
> of smartmontools is not new enough to support my SSD Samsung 650 Pro
> NVME SSD, so I had to manually install a newer version.
>
> With the MythTV upgrading, make sure you read all the release notes
> for all the new versions between your current version and 0.28.  There
> are some manual things you need to do on some upgrades, such as
> install the extra timezone support needed for when MythTV converts to
> using UTC instead of local time.
>
> Using the SQL command line need not involve fear, as you can easily
> use it completely safely for queries without ever doing anything that
> changes the database.  If you only use the show, desc and select
> commands, there is no danger.  My most frequent use of SQL commands is
> to do searches of the recorded, oldrecorded and program tables to see
> if I have previously recorded or watched something.  I find that the
> EPG here in NZ is so bad at times that MythTV will be re-recording an
> entire series of something that has different EPG but I already have a
> copy of.  An example is New Tricks, where the current series on UKTV
> is the same as one I already have, and the descriptions mostly match,
> but there are enough differences that mythbackend is re-recording them
> all.
>
I'll look at the upgrade process again,but if I recall correctly, the  
option was not available when I checked in April.I may be confusing it  
with upgrading to 0.28 on 12.04 though.
As it is I prefer to do fresh installs.Especially if I'm installing onto a  
new drive.