Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
> OK, I've built mythtv-frontend.  On a machine with no prior
> installation, it finds the machine running a MythTV 0.21 back end (how?).

auto discovery, according to the release notes[1]: "Added auto
discovery of MythTV servers/frontends"
Perhaps upnp, as Craig suggested?

> On another machine, where I have a MySQL server with an old version of
> the mythconverg database, I can't start it: it connects to the
> database, finds that it's the wrong version, and stops again.  I
> suspect that I could fix that with mythtv-setup, but the port doesn't
> install it.  Would it be difficult to get it to do so?

MythTV (mythfrontend) will always try to connect to a local
configuration db first time[2]: "When you start mythfrontend for the
first time, it will attempt to connect to a configuration database on
the local machine."
Personally, I would prefer that it was possible to somehow disable
this behaviour.


References:
1) http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.21
2) http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-10.html#ss10
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen