My MythTV box was sadly out of date, and to use the new scheduling service I needed to upgrade.

DVD problems prevented me from upgrading from the DVD I downloaded. Luckily I found how to use the PXE image on the DVD to boot. It’s pretty nifty, you point your bootloader at the PXE images from the DVD (which I wget’ted from my workstation), then you boot and do an HTTP based install (mkdir /var/www/html/f7; mount f7.iso /var/www/html/f7 -o loop from the workstation)

Had many problems upgrading the packages because of conflicts with ATrpms. Ended up deleting all RPMs that had FC4 in the name and then reinstalled them from yum.

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rpm -qa | grep fc4 | perl -p  -e 's/(.*)-.*?-.*/$1/' > a
rpm --nodeps -e `cat a`
yum install `cat a`

I’m not sure why yum had trouble figuring out these dependencies, but this worked well enough.