[mythtv] [PATCH] Stop mythfilldatabase from overwriting channel
names
Isaac Richards
ijr at case.edu
Tue Jan 25 22:03:23 EST 2005
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:23 pm, Doug Larrick wrote:
> thor wrote:
> > Attached is a short patch that will add a command line option
> > (--no_channel_name_updates) to mythfilldatabase. This will prevent the
> > updating logic from rewriting the channel's name with whatever it is
> > called by the source of the listing data. Ie. You can edit your channel
> > names in the setup program (Channel Editor) and those custom names will
> > not get overwritten.
> >
> > I sent it as a patch rather than just commiting it as I've never touched
> > mythfilldatabase before, and I have not really thought through all the
> > logic.
>
> Note that the way you've coded this will only take effect for
> DataDirect. Which is fine, but the help text should probably say so.
>
> There was some brief discussion about having mythfilldatabase not touch
> existing channel names, channum, or freqid at all for existing channels.
> The advantage of this would be if Zap2it has incorrect or cosmetically
> unappealing info, user's hand edits would be preserved. The
> disadvantage is that Myth won't automatically track channel
> reassignments (the user would have to delete the channel to get it
> recreated). This change would also be more compatible with allowing
> HDTV/DVB in-stream guide data to be the master source of channel
> information.
>
> This change would be easy enough to put together (quite similar to the
> patch from the quoted message); does anyone have any further thoughts on
> this?
I certainly don't mind dropping the update until there's a better method in
place to do it.
Isaac
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