[mythtv-users] Would like to use Myth CVS but never have...

[Alan Snyder]

> 
> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:19 pm, Anthony wrote:
> > CVS is what the developers are CURRENTLY working on. Its 
> quite likely 
> > there are bugs, broken things, etc in the builds generated 
> from CVS, 
> > but in most cases, builds should generate (i.e. no compiler errors).
> >
> > If you are familiar with coding, and don't want to wait for 
> 0.15, you 
> > could always look through the CVS log for changes related to your 
> > problem, manually patch them in and recompile.
> >
> 
> I'm probably not familiar enough with coding to figure out 
> which pieces of 
> code I need and manually patch just the right files so how 
> about this. I download CVS and related modules, compile, 
> install.  Then if something is  
> broken can I just switch back to my mythtv-0.14 source 
> directory and run 
> "make install" and put the 0.14 binarys back out and down 
> grade?  or is this 
> a big NO NO because of database changes and or upgrades?
> 
You can do this IF you backup the database before the CVS install, then
restore it before going back ot 0.14.  New versions will upgrade the
database but old versions won't downgrade it.  Instructions for
backup/restore are in the docs.