---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> Date: 26 February 2010 04:52 Subject: Re: [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption To: Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> Cc: p...@gentoo.org
Is there a simple way for users to determine what client versions they may have? -A On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Forgot to send it to pr@ > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> > Date: 26 February 2010 02:19 > Subject: [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > > > I think this is good to go, let's get some comments from the list. > > Ben > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Richard Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> > Date: 24 February 2010 16:57 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > > How about this revised news item: > > Title: MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption > Author: Richard Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2010-03-01 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Installed: <media-tv/mythtv-0.22 > > Due to an incompatibility between MythTV 0.21 and the default Gentoo > MySQL configuration, it is likely that long-time MythTV users will > have databases with a mixture of locale encodings. If you upgrade to > 0.22 without following these directions carefully, you could end up > with a database that contains errors that are extremely difficult to > fix. > > Note that not all mythtv users need to modify their databases, and > this should only be performed at the time of the upgrade. The guide > below contains instructions that can be used to determine if this > problem pertains to you. > > Please see the MythTV Upgrade Guide for instructions: > > http://wiki.mythtv.org/wiki/Fixing_Corrupt_Database_Encoding > > Be sure to save a database backup before upgrading. Also, be sure to > upgrade any other clients/backends you are using to 0.22 at the same > time. The upgrade instructions need to be followed once per database > - individual client/backend upgrades do not require these steps. > > If you do run into problems with your upgrade, there is a forum thread > where you may be able to find help: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-816566-highlight-.html > > > > -- > Ben de Groot > Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) > ______________________________________________________ >
