[mythtv-users] Re: Feature request: backwards compatability

gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) glandix at lloydnet.org
Fri May 20 06:26:22 UTC 2005


Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 19 May 2005 12:10, cwatson at linkline.com wrote:
> 
>>Howdy,
>>
>>
>>>Find a disc on the cover of "Linux Media Magazine" with MythTV
>>>binaries on it running a slightly older knoppmyth 0.17  Decide to see
>>>if knoppmyth is really all it's cracked up to be, only to find out
>>>that your backend isn't going to play nice with it.  Stomp on the
>>>disc, curse knoppmyth, and smile 18 hours later when your Gentoo
>>>install finishes and 0.18 works as expected.
>>
>>Curse KnoppMyth?!  Perhaps this is why my body ached and I couldn't sleep
>>last night.  The MythTV versioning (non) issue is not a KnoppMyth issue.
>>Any one capable of reading should be about to figure this out.  In the 18
>>hours it took you to install Gentoo and MythTV, I could have installed
>>KnoppMyth on 18 PCs.  This includes downloading 0.18, producing a debs on
>>one to be installed on others (with much time remaining to watch TV).
> 
> 
> Heh. 18 hours...

bah, takes way less than that ... got my backend running in no time w/ 
gentoo and can't wait to get started switching my frontend over, too! :)

-g-


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