[mythtv-users] KnoppMyth R5A22 seriously broken (was: RE: Mythtv -0.18.1 using protocol 15)

[Jim Reith]

At 11:06 AM 11/3/2005, Isaac Richards wrote:
>On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:13 am, Michael Bochynski wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:24 +0000, fred bloggs wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've had an install of Mythtv on gentoo for a few months, and it has been
> > > working fine - and happily works with a frontend from another gentoo
> > > install.
> > >
> > > However, last night I was trying to get a Knoppmyth frontend and also
> > > winMyth to work, and when they connect to my backend I get the error:
> > >
> > > MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 18 but we
> > > speak 15!
> > >
> > > The backend is version  0.18.1.20050510-1, the gentoo install is version
> > > mythtv-0.18.1-r1, and the tarball is called mythtv-0.18.1.tar.bz2 - so I
> > > am pretty sure I am running 0.18.1:)
> > >
> > > Looking at problems people have had with protocol errors the protocol
> > > number seems to track the release number, so why is my 0.18,1 install
> > > using an old protocol - 15, and how can I get it to use 18?
> > >
> > > thanks
> >
> > I had the same problem. It turns out that the Knoppmyth R5A22 has Mythtv
> > 0.18.2svn, which supposedly uses protocol 18.
>
>People need to stop distributing SVN versions.  The people who do don't ever
>think what they're doing will break people's multi-computer setups.  It's
>also pretty idiotic to pick a random checkout date and release as if it were
>stable.  This is _not_ 0.18.2, or anything related to it.
>
>As far as I'm concerned, nobody should use KnoppMyth until they revert to
>using a stable release, or at _least_ a checkout from the release-0-18-fixes
>branch..

but it is perfectly acceptable for those of us using single machines
and it does resolve the problem with needing to move to the Stable
ivtv 4.0 branch that many of us need

it just needs the caveat stated somewhere visible