[mythtv-users] protocol version mismatch, what's the best solution?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Oct 3 21:07:30 UTC 2006


Richard Freeman wrote:
> Sure, in an ideal world we run the same distro of linux on every one of
> our boxes, but sometimes it is nice to be able to use different distros
> on different boxes, and it would be nice if 0.20 on Fedora talked to
> 0.20 on Gentoo and 0.20 on Knoppmyth and 0.20 on Minimyth.  From the
> user's standpoint they ARE using the same version - it is just that 0.20
> describes about 75 different builds and counting...  :)
>   
This is not a distribution issue.  It is quite simply someone running 
different revisions of 0.20-fixes on different boxes.  This is entirely 
at the discretion of the package maintainers pulling from 0.20-fixes.  
There is no problem if you run the same revision on all your boxes.  How 
easy or hard it is for someone to do that isn't really of much 
consequence to Isaac, I imagine.  It has quite clearly been stated that 
the only supported configuration is one where all systems are running 
the same revision (not version as you see it , like 0.20, but the same 
SVN revision whether that be built from a package, tarball, or source). 

Also, AFAIK, every mythbackend and frontend will report the SVN revision 
used to build it:

[root at slave ~]# mythbackend --version
Library API version: 0.20.20060915-1
Source code version: 11355
Options compiled in:
 linux release using_xvmcw using_v4l using_oss using_alsa using_arts 
using_ivtv using_firewire using_dbox2 using_hdhr using_ip_rec 
using_freebox using_live using_lirc using_joystick_menu using_dvb 
using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld 
using_opengl_vsync using_opengl using_frontend using_backend

I don't see what the problem is.  If your systems have different source 
code versions, you are on your own.

Kevin



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