[mythtv] Upgrade database from command line

[Grant Gardner]

On 7 September 2014 20:55, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 09/07/2014 02:19 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
> FWIW, I don't think it's too much to ask users to install the version of
> MythTV they need to upgrade their databases--especially since the "remove
> ability to upgrade from ancient versions of MythTV" is something we seldom
> do.  We have only ever done so when some particular database upgrades are so
> ancient that they tend to fail with modern Qt/Qt-MySQL/MySQL--at which point
> users who are using those ancient versions should probably upgrade to the
> stable version (that's supported) as soon as they hear the development
> (next) version removes support for upgrading from their version if they care
> to keep their data.
>

If I've read the code correctly current trunk can go back as far as
0.24, and 0.24-fixes can go back as far as 0.14
See - https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/504

With any luck I'll have a fully scripted process for this sometime
later tonight.  Can anyone suggest somewhere to get some old version
backups to test with?