Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I just wasted an hour so I thought maybe I could save someone else > the problems. The new MythTV 0.19 rev that's out in portage doesn't > work with an older mythbackend server running version 0.18. Apparently > you have to update both ends at the same time. Of course portage is > not smart enough to know the server is running elsewhere on the > network and save me the problem so I'm dropping back to the 0.18 > frontend on my desktop.
This has, I think, always been the case. I once emerged a newer frontend, connected back to the server and it didn't work. Worse, by connecting it the frontend UPDATED the mysql tables, so the backend ceased functioning altogether (...!). A nice DoS. I wrote to the mythtv list regarding this behaviour (I called it a bug) but it was deemed neccessary ie. not a bug at all since some extensions in the frontend run standalone (like weather, etc.) so the frontend has to update the db. I was not satisfied with that answer, but what can you do... I has no other than updating the backend too, since there is no rollback possibility. The next MythTV update I do will have to be carefully planned, since I deploy one backend and 4 frontends... Maybe this behaviour has changed by now though, since from your post I gather your backend still works fine. Still, my strong advice is: always always backup the mysql db before attempting to connect ANY newer version MythTV frontend. > I hope this saves someone else the time. Hear hear. Maarten > Cheers, > Mark > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
