[mythtv-users] Upgrading to .23 on Gentoo database question

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 13:31:34 UTC 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Dale Pontius <DEPontius at edgehp.net> wrote:
>> On 10/20/10 10:30, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'm finally upgrading my Gentoo mythbackend from .22 to .23.  IIRC, I
>>>>> had to do some funky database maneuvering to set the correct character
>>>>> encoding.  Is there anything I'll need to look out for before I start
>>>>> up the .23 backend?  I made a backup of my myth database before I
>>>>> upgraded the myth files.
>>>>
>>>> Since the database encoding stuff was straightened out in 0.22 the
>>>> upgrades should be straight forward.  I upgraded from 0.22 directly ro
>>>> 0.23.1 on my Gentoo myth boxes with no problem.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Great!  Thanks for the response.
>>
>> Are you upgrading to 0.23 or 0.23.1?  I noticed the other day that the
>> really-old 0.23 ebuilds had been supplemented by new 0.23.1 ones.
>>
>
> Yep - it's .23.1.  Hopefully it won't take us too long to get .24!

There are experimental ebuilds for 0.24 at
http://github.com/MarcT/mt-mythtv

Instructions are here:
http://github.com/MarcT/mt-mythtv/wiki

And since trunk will probably be the default see the following
information on how to switch branches:
http://github.com/MarcT/mt-mythtv/wiki/how-to-change-branches

John


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