[mythtvnz] Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04

[Robert Fisher]

I recall seeing something about 20.04.1 but I forgot and followed the guide
here
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/upgrade-ubuntu-18-04-to-20-04-lts-using-command-line/

and it did not mention any warnings about 20.04.1

Robert Fisher

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, 2:43 PM Stephen Worthington, <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:09:25 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >I just upgraded my Ubuntu Server to 20.04 via command line and SSH.
> >
> >(Originally MythBuntu 16.04, then Ubuntu 18.04)
> >
> >Only issues -
> >
> >The process seemed to hang for 10 minutes after upgrading Chromium on
> >SNAP but then it continued without prompting
> >
> >MythWeb didn't work until I edited /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php7.2.load
> >to point to php7.4 (i then renamed it)
> >
> >VNC didn't work because vnc4server is not in 20.4 so I changed to
> >tightvncserver
>
> I would have said you were living dangerously doing that.  The upgrade
> path for LTS releases now only happens when the .1 release arrives. So
> you would have to have forced the 18.04 to 20.04 upgrade, which is not
> recommended until they have got all the bugs out of the process and
> released 20.04.1.  That is for Ubuntu desktop though - is server the
> same?
>
> The PHP updating process really needs someone to produce an automated
> upgrade system.  Your problem now happens every time the version
> updates - it would be much better if the package had code to automate
> the name change and maybe asked you if it could do it for you.  But
> there can be other changes needed in the PHP code also, which is a
> whole different ball game.  I had to modify the mythexport PHP code a
> while ago when a PHP update broke it.  Fortunately the fix was pretty
> obvious from the error messages, as I know nothing about PHP.
>
> I find Snap updates to be a pain.  As far as I can tell, they do not
> do any output to tell you what is happening.  So if there are 20 Snap
> updates to be done, you just get to wait while it happens and you do
> not even get told what has been updated.  It takes long enough with no
> output that I always start to worry that something has hung, so I
> usually go away and do something else so I will not be tempted to poke
> at it.  I consider having no output to be a very stupid thing, as I
> always want to know what has been updated so I can have some idea what
> may have been broken by an update.
>
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