Re: mythtv-0.27/0.28 for EL6

Grant McChesney <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:09:52 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.atrpms.general
Message-ID <CACi+cVo0WwzvYY1CsAnrYg+04BMmF2nUxFT8EdqtBC2eZ2rgwA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Kenneth Brun Nielsen
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 4 December 2013 01:20, James Szinger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:45:16 +0100
>> Kenneth Brun Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm very interested in this too.
>> >
>> > On my current EL6 installation, I use Mythweb 0.27 and Mythtv backend
>> > 0.26 (this is the obvious result of "yum update" in atrpms). This
>> > difference gives some annoying behaviour (mainly presentation).
>> >
>> > In case, it is not planned to upgrade the atrpms repo to mythbackend
>> > 0.27, can I downgrade mythweb, or is that like asking for trouble
>> > (database format has changed AFAIK).
>>
>> mythweb-0.26 is still in the repository, so you should be able to yum
>> downgrade mythweb.  The database format is tied to the backend, so I
>> think this should be safe.
>>
>>
> Jim, I tried downgrading, but it wasn't that straightforward After
> downgrade of mythweb, the page complained: "Current database version of 4
> is newer than the code base version 3".
>
> However, after a few iterations, I located a parameter within database
> table "settings" named "WebDBSchemaVer". I changed this from 4 to 3, and so
> far it works. But I guess this is not the only thing, that has changed in
> the DB, so I wouldnt recommend other to try it without having a deeper
> insight, than I have.
>
> /Kenneth
>

Kenneth:

I had the same problem a few months ago.  I think I only modified
db_update.php after the downgrade to get mythweb working again.  I've
included the changes to my db_update file below.

db_update.php:

    define('WebDBSchemaVer', 4)


Grant

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