Re: mythtv backup on upgrade

Ross Boylan <ross@???> writes:

> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 20:11 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> Ross Boylan <ross@???> writes:
>>
>> > Should the myth, as packaged, make a backup of my database before
>> > upgrading? On the myth list someone said myth does, but I can't see one
>> > anywhere (from 0.24.2 to 0.25).
>>
>> Nothing. This feature should be managed by mythtv.
> I think this means the deb packaging/install scripts do nothing, but the
> upstream code that makes a backup should be intact. Is that right?

Yes. See files in the debian/paches directory. I don't touch the
upstream code to include/remove functionality.

These patches are only here to fixes problems with php 5.4 and build
issues.

Christian