[mythtv-users] [old] Re: XvMC and libmpeg2 to be dropped in 0.25

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/8/2011 21:22, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:01 -0800, Robert McNamara wrote:
>> Or, as we have tried to make as clear as we can, simply don't upgrade MythTV
>> if you need some functionality which is not available in a later version.
> That would be much easier if the protocol would have some back/for-ward
> compatibility.  Even for a release or 3, but as it is every single
> upgrade of just one single machine in a myth network means *everything*
> has to be upgraded and thus it means that all of your frontends need to
> have similar capabilities if hardware features are going to continue to
> be deprecated as releases go on.

MythTV automatically backs up the database before it updates the 
schema.  Should you manage to accidentally update your system to a new 
schema, you can simply revert to that backup made just minutes previous.