[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] News item: 2010-03-01 MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

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From: Alec Warner <antarus@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 <yngwin@gentoo.org>
Cc: pr@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 <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Forgot to send it to pr@
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> From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@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
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> I think this is good to go, let's get some comments from the list.
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> Ben
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> From: Richard Freeman <rich0@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
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> How about this revised news item:
>
> Title: MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption
> Author: Richard Freeman <rich0@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
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> 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
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> Ben de Groot
> Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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