[ATrpms-users] Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms

[Marshall Crocker]

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> True - but for those of us running home systems, we may be willing to
> take the risk... at least until we find the time to upgrade...
>
> I don't really relish spending multiple hours updating all my
> customizations ;)
>   
Not to troll or anything, but this is exactly the reason I gave 
mythbuntu a try.  I've been using redhat since 6.1, all the way up to 
fedora 7.  After fedora 7 went EOL I decided to give mythbuntu a try.  A 
couple of my coworkers recommended it and the automated upgrades were 
very appealing.  No more wasting a weekend every 6 months or year just 
to upgrade a computer that was working fine.  I know ubuntu does 6 
months release cycles, but upgrading is as simple as apt-get 
dist-upgrade (most of the time) and they also offer their LTS version 
(8.04) which is good for 2 years (not sure if mythtv packages are 
backported though).  I haven't upgraded my mythbuntu from 8.04 to 8.10 
yet but I have done my laptop.  Everything went off with only one hitch, 
the latest kernel is having issues with certain sata controllers but I 
booted into the old one no problem.

Mythbuntu is by no means perfect but I feel much better right now 
knowing that I'm not going to have to spend time to reinstall fedora 
(upgrades even from the dvd never worked for me) just so I can keep 
getting updated mythtv packages.  I'm very thankful for Axel and atrpms 
as I never would have taken the time to compile mythtv from source but 
fedora's lack of an automated upgrade path caused me too much 
frustration. Mythbuntu may not be the best solution for everyone but I 
think its worth looking into if you're sick of constantly reinstalling 
fedora.

Marshall