[mythtv] Can I have 0.8 *and* CVS installed and working at the same time?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Wed Apr 9 23:53:56 EDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:02:58PM -0400, Andy Davidoff wrote:

> The same way; MySQL is happy to use a symlink to a directory holding
> the database.  You can do this without restarting MySQL, but you need
> to know what you're doing. :-)  A safer approach:
> 
> 	stop myth, mysql
> 	ln -sf $MYSQL_DATA_DIRECTORY/target $MYSQL_DATA_DIRECTORY/mythconverg
> 	start mysql, myth
> 
> ...where target is an appropriately named mythconverg database directory.

Since the CVS database schema sometimes diverges from the latest release in
incompatible ways, it might be better to have separate databases, with a
script or such to avoid fetching the program info twice if possible.

-- 
 - mdz


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