[mythtv-users] different distros for frontend and backend?

Matt Garman matthew.garman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 20:14:33 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>  On 9/15/2010 14:15, Matt Garman wrote:
>>
>> My only concern is how tolerable Myth is to version mis-matches
>> between the FE and BE.
>
> It is not at all.  You must run the same database schema and protocol
> version on all connected systems.
>
>> My expectation is that the FE should be
>> backwards-compatible, so as long as my BE is always the same or older
>> version as the FE, I'm ok.
>
> As long as you're within the same release, you're generally OK.  Keep a
> watch out for point releases like 0.23 vs. 0.23.1, which introduced an
> incompatibility in the release-0-23-fixes branch.


Hmm, this suggests my plan would probably work, as long as I plan
upgrades carefully.  This is probably more time/work than I want to
invest, as I assume the Arch and CentOS packages aren't in sync.

Hmm... maybe I'll just keep it all as-is :)

Thanks for the tips!
Matt


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