[mythtv-users] How to disable fan art?

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist at darac.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 11:05:37AM -0400, Will Dormann wrote:
> > On 9/6/14 11:00 AM, John Adams wrote:
> > > you can always
> > >     mv mythmetadatalookup mythmetadatalookup.orig
> > > and then
> > >     ln -s /bin/true mythmetadatalookup
> >
> >
> > Yeah, I considered doing that very thing.  It's just that custom tweaks
> > end up with a system that is less friendly to upgrades.  e.g., next
> > apt-get upgrade that pulls in a new mythtv version clobbers what I did
> > to it.
>
> That's easy. Just inform the package manager of your intentions:
>
> $ dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/mythmetadatalookup.orig --rename
> /usr/bin/mythmetadatalookup
>
> That will instruct any package trying to install
> /usr/bin/mythmetadatalookup to instead install it to
> /usr/bin/mythmetadatalookup.orig. Your symlink won't get clobbered.
>
> >
> > For now, I've manually unchecked the metadata option for the two shows
> > that seemed to pull in fan art.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > -WD
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When I looked for a solution for disabling full screen fanart, I found two
options. I could have just unset or changed permissions on the fanart
directory, or modified the theme. I was modifying the theme anyway, so I
found and removed all of the places where the full screen fanart was
loaded. Option two is not friendly to upgrades, but option one should work.
It is worth noting that option one may continually log errors every time it
tries to add new fanart.

-Tom
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