Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread Mikko Tuumanen
In real life we all "spread our things all over the house" to keep them in order. Exactly. And the point of spreading files all over the directory tree (not filesystem) is to be able to easily: - split the tree into several filesystems that have different properties such as size, speed, avail

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Gero wrote: >> I can't stand when things are installed all over the place. > > Let's take a quick look at real life: > if you need to exchange the tooth belt on your motorcycle - will you perform > that task in your living room? > > if you visit your friend for the

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread Gero
On Saturday 07 April 2012 - 04:05:16, VDR User wrote: > I can't stand when things are installed all over the place. Let's take a quick look at real life: if you need to exchange the tooth belt on your motorcycle - will you perform that task in your living room? if you visit your friend for the f

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Gero wrote: > Well, *I* think, that there's a big difference between keeping things in order > compared to spreading things all over the place. I can't stand when things are installed all over the place. It's too messy and pointless in my opinion. I'm in the habit

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.27

2012-04-06 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <4f6f0570.7050...@tvdr.de> you write: >VDR developer version 1.7.27 is now available at > > ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.27.tar.bz2 > >A 'diff' against the previous version is available at > > ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.26-1.7.27.diff > >[...] Hi! W

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread Gero
On Friday 06 April 2012 - 18:07:55, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 06.04.2012 17:06, Gero wrote: > > The comment (line 8ff) was a good joke on forum discussion thread, but > > keeping it that way sounds really offending to me. > > I don't think, its a good choice. > > But isn't that exactly what ha

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread Christopher Reimer
I think there's one problem left. Doesn't VDR try to create the "plugins" subdir? VDR runs usually as user. Most distribution maintainer will give VDR write permission for the cache dir and the config dir. But not for the resource dir. To prevent these permission problems I think it's neccessary

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 06.04.2012 17:06, Gero wrote: Hi, On Friday 06 April 2012 - 15:01:14, Christopher Reimer wrote: I hope the code as well as the documentation is ok, so that the patch can be added in the next VDR Version. The comment (line 8ff) was a good joke on forum discussion thread, but keeping it that

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread Gero
Hi, On Friday 06 April 2012 - 15:01:14, Christopher Reimer wrote: > I hope the code as well as the documentation is ok, so that the patch can > be added in the next VDR Version. The comment (line 8ff) was a good joke on forum discussion thread, but keeping it that way sounds really offending to

[vdr] Crystal Palace channels.conf file

2012-04-06 Thread Rob Davis
Slightly off topic, am about 6000 miles away, but can someone post an updated Crystal Palace dvb-t/freeview channels.conf file. My slingbox is acting up and, coming from a VDR background, I want to see what the channels.conf is to work out why. (If you're slingbox interested, the BBC Mux is miss

[vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-06 Thread Christopher Reimer
Hi Mailinglist, could someone please review the attached patch? It's originally posted by Maniac in this thread --> http://www.vdr-portal.de/board60-linux/board14-betriebssystem/p1054966-vdr-verzeichnisse-nach-filesystem-hierarchy-standard-fhs-richtig-ablegen/#post1054966 The documentation and so