My 2c, I did this about two weeks ago and all went swimmingly. Backup the mysql, and remember to change the paths to the .pro's are two things to definitely do. I did have a bead of sweat when i issued the rpm -e command, but everything came back fine for me, mysql is a great tool for storing settings. Just rememeber to get *all* the cvs, including mythweb, music, video etc or you'll be like me and scratch your head for a minute or two wondering where the menu options went.
Also , link the new setup program too, this has a lot more things to click in it than the atrpms, i was delighted to see the option to 'reset my card' in a gui, although i still have second thoughts about which colour is highlighted!. There are a few more options on mythtvsetup than the rpms, plus you can enable XmVC for sure at compile time (well, at least that's what i did). And the gui x,y options work too! Just recall the usual caveats about cvs's...you may get tomorrows bugs today. Backup is your friend i certainly agree, but i must commend the community for such an easy path the the latest cvs. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 January 2005 4:10 PM To: Phill Edwards; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Putting a toe in the CVS water Phill Edwards wrote: > 2) Do I _really_ have to obliterate the existing mythtv install (the > above HOWTO says to do rpm -qa | grep myth | xargs rpm -e)? This seems > a bit drastic to me. Isn't there a way of keeping the ATRPM install as > a fall-back/safety net if I stuff up with CVS? Certainly. And this applies in general to computer systems and (specifically) Linux systems. Do what I do on very important systems: make a "Norton Ghost"-like image of your system w/ partimage (available conveniently on the bootable cd from http://www.sysresccd.org/) before you make any serious changes. Then you *always* have a perfect fallback. That's the only way to be sure, and it'll give you some nice peace of mind after it's tested and you've taken advantage of it on a restore. Good luck, jl _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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