[mythtv-users] Default Mythtv Version

[Larry Roberts]

On 10/28/2012 5:09 PM, Larry Roberts wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 2:37 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Larry Roberts 
>> <mythtv at american-hero.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/22/2012 2:26 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
>>>> Hi Larry,
>>>>
>>>> Monday, October 22, 2012, 7:46:06 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> LR> At this point I'm thinking I'm going to go to 6.3, but stick with
>>>> LR> the .24 version. I'm not as worried about MySQL, but will
>>>> LR> definitely     go read the release notes.
>>>>
>>>> I did a first time install with my centos 6.3 box, so I didn't have to
>>>> take care about any old versions and recordings. However, the
>>>> 0.25-6-Version from the rpmfusion-repository is running very nicely
>>>> out of the box. The only thing I had to do outside of yum was to
>>>> build the s2-liplianin-drivers. I hope this helps. There is already a
>>>> 0.25.2-2-version available, but I didn't install it yet. "dont fix
>>>> what isn't broke" here too. :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Brining back an old topic as I'm now building the the new backend.
>>> The problem I'm running into is that my box doesn't support X86_64 
>>> and the
>>> only packages for .24 are for x86_64. (I'm running a Pentium 4)
>>> I can install the 0.25 version but I only have a DB backup of the 0.24
>>> version, and unfortunately while I was out of town the server HD 
>>> finally
>>> died so no option of getting the old version updated.
>>> Anyone know if its even possible to import a .24 db backup into the 
>>> 0.25
>>> version?  I'm not sure what if any schema changes occurred or what 
>>> problems
>>> it would cause in doing so.
>>
>> Yes, install 0.25, stop the backend, drop the database, restore the
>> 0.24 database then run mythtv-setup
> So ended up doing a manual install of the mythtv-backend and then 
> doing a config restore.
> after that I upgraded to 0.25 to get everything current.
>
> I'm finding another issue with the contrib scripts being missing and 
> that seems to be my next problem. Are they included in a new package 
> with 0.25?
>
Nevermind, found it.  updatedb

:)

>>> looking for suggestions at this point. I have an old PVR-350 card 
>>> that is my
>>> basic tuner which is what is causing me to stick with the P4 chassis.
>> what you are saying is illogical. There are still pci motherboards!
> Not in my closet :)  Just trying to reuse existing gear and I dont 
> have anything else that has a standard PCI slot that I can use.  I 
> have some 1/2 height slots but that doesn't help.
> Sorry I wasn't clear.
>>> I
>>> suppose I could upgrade to a newer capture card but to be honest I 
>>> haven't
>>> looked at what options are even available and what I would want to 
>>> look for
>>> at this point.
>>>
>>> Is there some place I can look for the older mythtv 0.24 releases 
>>> for i686
>>> kernels?
>>>
>>> 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Oct 16 14:40:53 UTC 2012 i686 
>>> i686 i386
>>> GNU/Linux
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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