[mythtv] Android build

[Klaas de Waal]

On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 20:26, Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 5/1/23 13:36, Klaas de Waal wrote:
> > I was thinking about adding a command line option for mythfrontend to
> > disable database version checking.
> > Using a setting that is stored in the database does not really work if
> > the database has been updated already.
> >
> These were my ideas:
>
> - the setting could be applied as a command line option via the -O
> option on startup of the frontend, or by updating the settings table
> using a database tool.
>

Sounds good to me. We could even add a menu item just for convenience.
With a bit of warning in the help text of course.
One more step towards getting it to "just work".


>
> - For android, it could be done using a database tool to update the
> settings table, since it is not easy to supply command line options with
> android.
>
> I was really only for power users. They would have to be aware of the
> risks. Normal users using the released versions of MythTV would not hit
> the problem of schema mismatches.
>
> Note you cannot override the database version with the -O option. There
> is code to prevent that in MythTV.
>
> Peter
>
>
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Klaas.
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