[mythtv-users] Upgrade disaster. Thread 1: mythconverg

Martin Brown Martin.Brown at macquarie.com
Sun Mar 6 23:19:53 UTC 2005


Yes, I ran src/mythtv/setup/setup. This didn't do anything to the database.

I don't see "mythtvsetup" anywhere. ??

Martin

> did you run the setup program  mythtvsetup or whatever your distribution 
> calls it - it should upgrade the database for you.
> 
> If you haven't done it - that should take care of this and the possibly 
> the other problem you posted.
> 
> Martin Brown wrote:
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>>> I decided to upgrade my OS from 2.4 to 2.6 and MythTV from 0.16 to 
>>> 0.17. I'm hoping my system will one day work as well as it did back in 
>>> the Good Ol Days...
>>>
>>> Problem 1: 0.17 mythconverg "recorded" table has some new columns.
>>>
>>> I want to save my previous recorded shows so had to manually add some 
>>> data to each row of "recorded" so that I could reload the data. No 
>>> doco on what to put in the new rows but they don't allow NULLs so I 
>>> just stuck in 0's.
>>>
>>> Surely standard procedure for a database schema change is to either 
>>> document how to migrate the data or provide a simple utility to do this?
>>>
>>> Martin Brown
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