Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:38:36 +0100 From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" <tingox@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade Message-ID: <ef8c8a880901180438i56753ee1sfa57738defd900ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090117062931.GE5043@dereel.lemis.com> References: <490B64FC.60608@FreeBSD.org> <20081104072440.GA44156@dereel.lemis.com> <49106BFF.9070305@FreeBSD.org> <1230742678.30559.29.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> <20081231174333.GA2839@soaustin.net> <495BBFFB.50808@FreeBSD.org> <496FBA3C.8020705@FreeBSD.org> <20090117062931.GE5043@dereel.lemis.com>
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Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@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 -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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