[mythtv] Help needed for RPM Fusion package modernizaton

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 21:04:43 UTC 2012


Ok, now that I've got 0.25.1 (mostly) fixed I though it would be good
to make sure that the package is up to date setup wise and had a few
questions.

1. The current package still installs a mysql.txt file. I think this
is totally unneeded but wanted to check first. It also currently
installs a blank config.xml in /etc/mythtv which I think is all I
need.

2. Right now on sysv systems both HOME and MTYHCONFDIR are being set
to /etc/mythtv which is causing all the HLS stuff to be installed
there (including the generated stream files). On systemd based
installs they are separate with MYTHCONFDIR being set to /etc/mythtv
and HOME being set to /usr/share/mythtv which I'm thinking needs to be
changed... The stream files need to NOT go into /etc but I'm not sure
how to do it. A more appropriate place for the stream files would be
something like /var/cache/mythtv which is actually already being
created but doesn't appear to be in use by anything. Or if the stream
files should be a bit more permanent, something like
/var/lib/mythstream which I could have the package create on install.

As an aside from 2, I would like to know:
- If any other environment variables are used by the backend?
- What components of mythtv use HOME and for what purposes.

Thanks,
Richard


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