[mythtv-users] Downgrading from 0.28 to 0.27

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Justin Alcorn <justin at jalcorn.net> wrote:
> I built my mythtv system on ubuntu and used the PPA to install.  Seeing
> 0.28, I of course chose the latest version  - not realizing I was using a
> pre-release version.  It's worked well, but I'm running into problems with
> mythcommflag and the H.264 files I need. Also, I later on decided to create
> a dedicated front end in my exercise room - only to discover that I couldn't
> use Mythbuntu.
>
> So I'm considering downgrading to 0.27.  I know there were significant
> schema changes and that there's no supported downgrade path.  I actually use
> PLEX for media that I want to keep long term, so just moving all the
> recordings I want to keep and starting from scratch is an option.  But It
> would be nice to have the recordings available for the frontend machine.
>
> So, options, in order of want:
>
> 1) Find a miracle, and fInd out that someone has written a script to change
> the schema and allow me to install 0.27 and get up and running with all my
> data  (YAY).  If that's happened, let me know.
>
> 2) Find the instructions on how to pull all the video recordings out,
> rebuild on 0.27, and then import them all back in and have them show up as
> if I had recorded them.
>
> 3) Discover the documentation on the database changes and write my own
> script that would take a mysqldump and convert it for later restoration into
> a 0.27 empty database. (I'm capable of both the technical and
> hours-of-labor/ADD/obsessive-compulsive sides of this, but probably not)
>
> 4) Just accept that the old recordings will not show up in Myth and rebuild
> from scratch.
>
> There's also the "Hey, 0.28 is working (mostly), so just leave well enough
> alone.
>
> Advice?  Ideas?
>
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> Justin B. Alcorn
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As a Mythbuntu developer. I need to know how when you enabled the 0.28
PPA, and how you accidentally enabled it.

-- 
Thanks,

Thomas Mashos