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

[Paul Gardiner]

On 14/02/2025 22:38, David Hampton wrote:
> 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.

I emptied the .mythtv directory entirely, let it repopulate and 
reselected Steppes, but the dialog box informing me of 34.2 is back. 
Strangely, it's not every time I start the front end. It seems to be 
once a day. I looked in tmp/themes.zip and there's no mention of 34.2 
there. It is a bit of a mystery.