[mythtv-users] Questions prior to 0.21 upgrade

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Mar 11 21:00:25 UTC 2008


On 03/11/2008 04:55 PM, Kevin Bailey wrote:
> When I upgraded from 0.19 to 0.20, I did it by compiling
> the source and one of the things I did was to rename all
> occurances of "mythconverg" to "mythconverg20". Yes, I
> dealt with .mythtv/mysql.txt too.
>
> Could myth do something like this automatically ?
> That is, instead of blowing away the 0.20 DB,
> instead it copies the old DB to the new one as it
> converts.
>
> It seems like a lot of people like to flip between
> versions, some are even creating VMs to do so, so
> it seems like it might be appreciated if it was
> easier.

Then people would expect that the recordings they made in one version 
would be available to another version.  This /only/ works if there's 
only one database getting updated...

Mike


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