[mythtv-users] setup error

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Sun Sep 17 01:29:23 UTC 2006


On Saturday 16 September 2006 6:59 pm, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 02:29:32AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > On 09/15/06 19:36, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> > >Note that Myth 0.19 is more or less stable.
> >
> > Nor does MythTV 0.19 work with MySQL 5.  MythTV 0.19-fixes or higher
> > must be used with MySQL 5.
>
> I'm running Myth 0.19 with MySQL 5.0 and it works perfectly, at
> least on Debian boxes.  The Debian MySQL 5.0 libraries are
> backward-compatible with 4.1 clients.

He's not talking about a source-level incompatibility.  There are SQL 
statements in stock 0.19 & older that are not compatible with MySQL 5.

> The Debian packages for libqt3-mt-mysql no longer refer to any
> specific MySQL version, and Christian Marillat's Myth-0.19-10 build
> is similarly free of restrictions.

And that's why you're not seeing any problems - if you're running those Myth 
packages, you're not using 0.19.  That's a 0.19-fixes pull.

Isaac


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