> On Thursday 24 November 2005 7:39, David Raine wrote: >> >I just got the 0.18.1 working (from .deb) on a fresh debian sid >> >install >> >(after giving up on KnoppMyth R22) and I am wondering whether it is >> >possible to compile and install the SVN head so it would be able to >> >coexist on the same setup where I got the 0.18.1 stable working? >> > >> >Note that puting SVN to /usr/local (while the stable lays in /usr) >> >and >> >renaming the database (I don't mind keeping two databases) might not >> >be >> >enough so I decided to ask if someone runs such setup successfully. >> >> I have both on my system - 0.18.1 for the g/f (stable, no change to >> behaviour) and latest SVN for when she's out and I can try out the >> bleeding >> edge. >> >> I installed one to prefix=/usr/local/mythSVN and the other to >> prefix=/usr/local/mythSTABLE. I then have a script that removes and >> recreates symlinks to /usr/local/myth as required - this way I don't >> have to >> change the PATH for the mythytv user. I do have to re-run ldconfig >> after the >> symlinks are set up to make sure the libraries are referenced OK. > > This is *exactly* what GNU stow is for. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ >
What about the MySQL database - from 0.18.1 to SVN head there are incompatabilities aren't there? Do you rename the relevant directory containing the database (mythconverg) and restart the mysql server or what? -- Robin Gilks _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
