FS#2535 - mythtv has bad symlink to mysql.txt

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sasha (kleptophobiac) - Sunday, 10 April 2005, 04:32 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Sunday, 10 April 2005, 04:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt should point to /.mythtv/mysql.txt - the current link to /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt is no longer checked by mythtv, and is therefore deprecated.
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Closed by  dorphell (dorphell)
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 02:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by dorphell (dorphell) - Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 04:18 GMT
Do we need the symlink at all? Can you strace it to see if .mythtv is in the searchpath? We can't symlink to ~/.mythtv
Comment by Sasha (kleptophobiac) - Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 08:13 GMT
myth searches first to ~/.mythtv, but the system wide wide (in case that no ~/.mythtv exists) is in /.mythtv/mysql.txt. No, that wasn't a typo. :)

The current symlink to /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt is no longer even checked by mythtv at all, so it is a useless symlink.
Comment by dorphell (dorphell) - Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 14:36 GMT
well I guess we'll just have no system-wide check I guess.
Comment by Sasha (kleptophobiac) - Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 20:17 GMT
not a big deal, and it certainly doesn't bother me. mythtv creates /.mythtv on its own, and so a symlink wouldn't be creating extra clutter.

I think it would be worth putting a note about that in the doc file that ships with the package, as I don't think this has made it into the official mythtv docs yet. They code first and document... later.

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