[mythtv-users] Video schema conflicts 0.24+fixes

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  On 11/29/2010 01:42 AM, Mike McMullin wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 21:47 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/28/2010 09:34 PM, Mike McMullin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a remote front end, Lucid 10.04LTS, with mythtv from the Avenard
>>>> repo, version is 0.24.0+fixes 27357, and when it connects to the back
>>>> end Lucid 10.04LTS with mythtv from the Avenard repo, version: 0.24.0
>>>> +fixes 27357, goes grey screen for a minute or so and then complains
>>>> that it wants to update the database schema for video from 1032 to 1038,
>>>> it offers a choice of updating or exiting, which dumps me into the
>>>> application which has no problems accessing the backend for recorded
>>>> programs.
>>>>    So what is wrong and how do I fix it?
>>>
>>> MythVideo schema needs updating.  Let it do it.
>>
>>   I let the front end upgrade the back end schema?  (Last time that
>> happened it was big trouble for 3 days, and that included an new install
>> for the back end.)
>
> No.  You let it update the MythVideo /frontend/ plugin schema.  There is no
> such thing as backend plugins, so all plugin data/schema is frontend.

I think the confusion is that

(1) there is only one database

(2) usually the database resides physically on the backend (although I
know it doesn't have to) and is seen by many as an integral part of
the backend.

(3) it seems strange to many people that the database schema is
updated by both the backend and the frontend, essenttially in two
bites.