[mythtv-users] MythTV design/distro questions.

[jose rubio]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 16:30, Berant Lemmenes wrote:
> Hello all!  I'm going to be setting up a first time MythTV system and
> had some questions regarding the setup of both the hardware and
> software.
> 
> Here is what I have:
> 
> Front-end:  VIA EPIA-M6000 with either Debian unstable, or pulling
> minimyth (or similar) off a TFTP server.
> 
> Back end:
> Debian woody system with a 300gig raid5 array.
> 
> My two questions are:
> 
> 1) where does the TV card have to go?
> 	Reading in the MythTV docs and the archives of this system it looks
> like the TV card would go into the back-end system... (based on the
> section about creating additional front-ends).

In the backend


> 2) Can I use debian woody as the back end?
> 	Debian woody packages are no longer being kept up to date since version
> 12 and above need a a version of QT above woody's version.
> 
> Is it possible to run woody as the backend and debian ustable as the
> front end?  that would get around the QT issue as unstable has a current
> enough version of QT.
You'll drive yourself crazy running stable on one machine and unstable
in the other.  I'm sure it's possible but when you encounter a problem
(and you will) you'll never know if it is because of incompatible libs
or from myth.  The more I think about it the more I would not do it.

Why would you not run sid on both machines?

> 
> I haven't checked what the dep's are for the .14 mythtv-backend debian
> unstable package is (ie if I can installt that with out QT etc)
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated!
> 
> Berant
> 
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-jose-