[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4560: convert maps.xml (from scripts) into a new DB table / provide ability to add additional maps

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Jan 31 17:16:39 UTC 2008


On 01/31/2008 11:08 AM, MythTV wrote:
> #4560: convert maps.xml (from scripts) into a new DB table / provide ability to
> add additional maps
>
>  I found that the new mythweather trunk is working great! When I was
>  setting up to use the maps (static and animated) from the scripts
>  directory, I noticed that there is not currently a way to add additonal
>  maps short of manually editing the maps.xml file.
>
>  Would it be possible to move the maps.xml data into the DB in a new table
>  as well as providing a way to add new maps to the DB? For example, I live
>  in the Dallas, TX USA area and although I can find maps that cover this
>  area, none provide detail for Dallas. I added my own entry to the maps.xml
>  file to get a local radar image which works great. The draw back is that
>  the maps.xml file is overwritten with each svn update.
>   

If you're truly using svn update (as opposed to svn checkout--and you 
should not be using svn checkout every time), svn should be merging the 
upstream changes into your locally-modified maps.xml.

If you keep a clean checkout in a tarball then update and re-tar the 
updated checkout or something, just make a patch with your changes (svn 
diff path/to/maps.xml > mythweather_maps.patch) and it will likely apply 
without modifications for a /very/ long time (even if maps.xml changes, 
it should apply cleanly with offsets--basically, only when the part you 
changed is changed upstream will you have to manually merge and 
re-generate the patch).  I do the tarball-based approach and have a list 
of about 10-20 patches that I apply each time I build, and a list of 
commands to issue in my build notes (so it's as simple as copy/paste'ing 
the patch command).

Of course, you could also make and submit the patch to move the data to 
the DB.  :)

Mike



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