[mythtv] Help needed for RPM Fusion package modernizaton
Gary Buhrmaster
gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 19:07:38 UTC 2012
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
....
> I like that idea better, but it could be a migration mess...
> /var/lib/mythtv is already created by the package.
There probably can be no reasonable migration. New installs
should *just work*, and people who have existing setups will
either have to cope, or live (you can create the /var/lib/myththv
regardless, but you only set the homedir if you create the
userid; you always copy config files (adding, leaving unchanged,
or .rpmnew as needed) to the homedir specified in /etc/passwd
(whether that ends up being /var/lib/mythtv or /home/mythtv
(someones else's config) or something else entirely).
btw, another simplification in packaging that I have seen
recommended by the devs is to always install the frontend
with a backend install (due to some config issues, I think).
btw, thanks for asking for thoughts. And thanks for building
the packages.
Gary
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