[ATrpms-users] Selective yum updates and perl-MythTV

[Grant McChesney]

On 8/30/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:09:51PM -0600, Grant McChesney wrote:
> > I just wanted to give a heads up to those who use selective yum updates
> (yum
> > update \*myth\*) for MythTV.  There's a fairly new package in ATrpms
> called
> > perl-MythTV.  The selective yum update will not update this package due
> to
> > the mixed case in the package name.
>
> Selective updates are asking for trouble anyhow. You can never know
> whether mythtv's build environment is now complete in you selective
> update scheme, e.g. what if mythtv or a plugin relies on certain
> features of libfoo that mythtv was built against?
>
> It's a rhetorical question - mythtv will break and you will not know
> why unless you start upgardng the rest of the packages one by
> one. There is also no way to embed the information about dependent
> packages that detailed (libfoo was build with libbar enabled and
> special featue baz) to ensure the depsoler will tell you that
> upgrading myth that way is a bad idea.
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
>
>

I actually don't use selective updates either.  I posted this warning about
it because there's a few MythTV howtos suggesting to upgrade with this
method.

Grant
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