Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday,  4 November 2008 at 20:29:02 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:24:40 +1100
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> One thing that has been a bone of contention in this port is the
>> handling of deleting the 'mythtv' user when removing the port.  I
>> don't believe that the user should disappear just because the port is
>> removed; it's often easier to remove a port and reinstall it rather
>> than upgrade it.  I'm told that the correct behaviour is that the user
>> should only be removed if no files under ~mythtv have changed.
>
> If no "better way" surfaces, perhaps it can be handled in the same way
> as it is for the postfix port?
> I believe this port asks the user if he / she wants to remove the
> postfix user when the port is de-installed.

This seems reasonable as a backup solution, but I really hate
interactive ports: they make it difficult to automate things.  I've
been told that there is a way, but I haven't had the time to
investigate it.

Greg
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