[mythtv-users] MythTV design/distro questions.

Berant Lemmenes berant at lemmenes.com
Wed Feb 25 18:31:30 EST 2004


The only real reason was that I've not had much experience with the
stability of sid and I'd rather not have my tvsystem/fileserver have
stability issues.

However if the general consensus is that it would be way more of a pain
in the ass then I can just run sid on the back end as well.

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 17:21, jose rubio wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 16:30, Berant Lemmenes wrote:
> > Hello all!  I'm going to be setting up a first time MythTV system and
> > had some questions regarding the setup of both the hardware and
> > software.
> > 
> > Here is what I have:
> > 
> > Front-end:  VIA EPIA-M6000 with either Debian unstable, or pulling
> > minimyth (or similar) off a TFTP server.
> > 
> > Back end:
> > Debian woody system with a 300gig raid5 array.
> > 
> > My two questions are:
> > 
> > 1) where does the TV card have to go?
> > 	Reading in the MythTV docs and the archives of this system it looks
> > like the TV card would go into the back-end system... (based on the
> > section about creating additional front-ends).
> 
> In the backend
> 
> 
> > 2) Can I use debian woody as the back end?
> > 	Debian woody packages are no longer being kept up to date since version
> > 12 and above need a a version of QT above woody's version.
> > 
> > Is it possible to run woody as the backend and debian ustable as the
> > front end?  that would get around the QT issue as unstable has a current
> > enough version of QT.
> You'll drive yourself crazy running stable on one machine and unstable
> in the other.  I'm sure it's possible but when you encounter a problem
> (and you will) you'll never know if it is because of incompatible libs
> or from myth.  The more I think about it the more I would not do it.
> 
> Why would you not run sid on both machines?
> 
> > 
> > I haven't checked what the dep's are for the .14 mythtv-backend debian
> > unstable package is (ie if I can installt that with out QT etc)
> > 
> > Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated!
> > 
> > Berant
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> 
> 
> -jose-
> 
> 
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