[mythtv-users] Hey, there's a new Steppes v34.2 - ha, nope, fooled you.

[David Hampton]

On Fri, 2025-02-14 at 19:39 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 14/02/2025 17:33, David Hampton via mythtv-users wrote:
> > On Fri, 2025-02-14 at 16:55 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> > > For a week or two, whenever I start my frontend, I see a dialog
> > > box
> > > telling me that Steppes v34.2 is available. I go to the theme
> > > chooser,
> > > and it's not there. Any ideas?
> > 
> > What version of MythTV?
> 
> It's a very recent 34-fixes with an extra commit released from my
> fork. 
> The frontend shows the version as some sort of combination of my tag
> and 
> the sha. Could the version name be the problem?
> 
> > I download the theme archive from here:
> > 
> >    http://themes.mythtv.org/themes/repository/trunk/themes.zip
> > 
> > Unzipping it and looking at the file trunk/Steppes/themeinfo.xml,
> > it
> > says its for Steppes version 34.2.  I'm assuming your system gets
> > this
> > far, as it tells you there is a new version.  The themeinfo.xml
> > file
> > lists the download url for this version of Steppes as:
> > 
> >   
> > http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mythtv/themes/trunk/Steppes-34.2_trunk.zip
> > 
> > I can download that file.
> > 
> > I have noticed that the list of available themes isn't always
> > alphabetized.  For example, my test system is currently listing all
> > of
> > the downloaded themes at the top, and then listing all the
> > available
> > themes below that.  I see "Arclight 28.3" as the first item in the
> > list, and "Arclight 34.1" as the eighth item in the list.  Perhaps
> > Steppes 34.2 is near the bottom of your available themes list?
> 
> Mine do look to be in alphabetical order, with Steppes 34.2 not
> listed. 
> I'm not sure how far through the process it's getting. I don't know 
> where to look for those downloaded files.

For version 34, you should be pulling this version of the zip:

  http://themes.mythtv.org/themes/repository/34/themes.zip

And looking here:

  34/Steppes/themeinfo.xml

That file says the current version is 34.1, and the url provided is
downloadable.

The question is: why is your frontend looking at the trunk version of
themes.zip when it starts up instead of the v34 version.  When you go
into the theme chooser it does appear to correctly be using the v34
version of themes.zip.  I don't remember how these files are downloaded
and cached, but you could try removing the "themes" and
"tmp/remotethemes" directories from ~/.mythtv and see if that helps.

David