[mythtv] Upgrade database from command line

[John Adams]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:10:32 +1000
Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 September 2014 01:08, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> 
> > IIRC, patches are always welcome. If you do decide to do this, can
> > you somehow incorporate a "default db settings" file or something?
> > I'm working on some packaging issues that we discussed in #mythtv
> > regarding our (Mythbuntu) default DB, but I really need a way to set
> > some defaults in the DB (eg. theme, storage group location, etc) and
> > I'm not finding a non-hacky way to do that.
> 
> It would be awesome to have a small utility, that can be packaged
> outside of mythtv so people can easily upgrade from an old version of
> myth (0.21 and earlier) to 0.24 DB schema, and then 0.27 without
> having to install a whole system like what is currently being
> discussed in the mythtv user mailing list

Most of the work upgrading the db is done in
.../mythtv/libs/libmythtv/dbcheck.cpp
-- 
John Adams (mythtv at onevista.com)