[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4560: convert maps.xml (from scripts) into a new DB table / provide ability to add additional maps

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Jan 31 17:45:45 UTC 2008


On 01/31/2008 12:16 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/31/2008 11:08 AM, MythTV wrote:
>   
>> #4560: convert maps.xml (from scripts) into a new DB table / provide ability to
>> add additional maps
>>
>>  I found that the new mythweather trunk is working great! When I was
>>  setting up to use the maps (static and animated) from the scripts
>>  directory, I noticed that there is not currently a way to add additonal
>>  maps short of manually editing the maps.xml file.
>>
>>  Would it be possible to move the maps.xml data into the DB in a new table
>>  as well as providing a way to add new maps to the DB? For example, I live
>>  in the Dallas, TX USA area and although I can find maps that cover this
>>  area, none provide detail for Dallas. I added my own entry to the maps.xml
>>  file to get a local radar image which works great. The draw back is that
>>  the maps.xml file is overwritten with each svn update.
> If you're truly using svn update (as opposed to svn checkout--and you 
> should not be using svn checkout every time), svn should be merging the 
> upstream changes into your locally-modified maps.xml.

New guess...  You're editing the /installed/ copy of maps.xml.  You 
should be editing the copy in the working copy (i.e. under the 
mythplugins directory from which you do the make install) before 
installing the plugins.

Mike


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