[mythtv-users] Testing latest Mythv

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Bjoern,

Monday, January 11, 2016, 10:28:47 AM, you wrote:

> John McEntee wrote:
>> There has been some discussion that the latest development version of mythtv does not get tested enough as potential tester are unhappy with disturbing their "production" backend. I know I am one of the worst culprits as I am still running 0.24 but I am asking this list. Who would be willing to test that latest master branch, but does not at the moment because of some barrier?
>>
>> I have a plan for my own setup that is going to involved creating a docker image that I can use to import my master database (script changes to hostnames etcc.) Then mount the mythtv directories with a union filesystem (aufs?). This second master could then be used for testing (including recording with a additional USB tuner / network tunner),without  effecting the original backend.
>>
>> Would anyone else use a preconfigured docker image like this for testing.What are peoples favourite distributions? (aufs not in the main line kernel so I think only available on the ubuntu docker images, I don't really know docker yet).
> I am also interested in testing MythTV 0.28, but without loosing my working 0.27 setup.

> Therefore I installed MythTV 0.28 in it's own prefix
> /usr/local/mythtv-0.28. And I want to setup two MySQL databases.

> Can I run MythFrontend with two versions of the configuration files
> $HOME/.mythtv/mysql.txt and $HOME/.mythtv/config.xml?
> (I looked in the source code and found some scripts with hardcoded paths for configuration files.)

> MythBackend seems to load the MySQL settings from
> ~mythbackend/.mythtv/mysql.txt or ~mythbackend/.mythtv/config.txt.

> Is there a solution which is more elegant than renaming or
> symlinking the mysql.txt and config.txt files?

> Greetings,
> Björn
> _______________________________________________

I see more serious problems then those configuration files. That you
can solve by using different users. But they for instance both will
claim the same http ports, so you need them to have their own
ip-address. Also I do not know if you can run multiple instances of
mysql/mariadb!
A few month ago there was a thread if remember correctly running
multiple frontends for different version backends! 


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

De lerende Mens