[mythtv-users] different distros for frontend and backend?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Sep 15 20:21:07 UTC 2010


  On 9/15/2010 16:14, Matt Garman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 9/15/2010 14:15, Matt Garman wrote:
>>> My only concern is how tolerable Myth is to version mis-matchesbetween the FE and BE.
>> It is not at all.  You must run the same database schema and protocolversion on all connected systems.
>>> My expectation is that the FE should bebackwards-compatible, so as long as my BE is always the same or olderversion as the FE, I'm ok.
>> As long as you're within the same release, you're generally OK.  Keep awatch out for point releases like 0.23 vs. 0.23.1, which introduced anincompatibility in the release-0-23-fixes branch.
> Hmm, this suggests my plan would probably work, as long as I plan
> upgrades carefully.  This is probably more time/work than I want to
> invest, as I assume the Arch and CentOS packages aren't in sync.

If you run 0.23.1 on Arch, and 0.23.1 on CentOS, you shouldn't have any 
problems.


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