[mythtv-users] Easy way to switch between 0.27 / 0.28 FE only

[Mark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf
> Of Stuart Auchterlonie
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2015 8:01 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Easy way to switch between 0.27 / 0.28 FE only
> 
> On 28/10/15 01:16, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > On 27 October 2015 at 21:39, Mark <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is there an easy way to switch between (back and forth and back
> >> again) 0.27 and 0.28 on a single (Mythbuntu or Ubuntu) frontend?
> >>
> >> I am test building a 0.28 backend but it only has basic graphics and
> >> I’m running it in a virtual machine so it doesn’t handle being a frontend
> well.
> >> When I’m testing I think I would like to grab one of the unused 0.27
> >> main frontends, toggle it to 0.28, point it to the test server and
> >> test a bit of livetv, and then toggle it back to 0.27 and point it
> >> back to the main BE for the next person who sits down.
> >>
> >> I’m not sure whether it can be done though, without risk of the 0.28
> >> dependencies conflicting with the 0.27 dependencies?
> >
> > There are ways. That's how I do here.
> >
> > First make sure the binaries are installed in two different paths.
> > that means you can't use 0.27 and 0.28 binary packages  you'll have to
> > compile one yourself
> >
> > Eg. ./configure
> > --prefix=/something/that/is/different/to/the/other/install
> >
> > then make / make install
> >
> > The easiest then is to use a different user to run it so you have no
> > conflicting mythtv config:
> 
> That's where the MYTHCONFDIR environment variable is useful.
> You can then run both versions as the same user by just pulling in different
> settings.
> 
> Regards
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
Thankyou Stuart, this works superbly well. It has taken me a bit of time to move my local build around but this has allowed me to not just switch over the remote frontends but to build a couple of testing databases that I can work on without impacting the live system.

Your instructions made perfect sense, thanks again!