Re: mythtv backup on upgrade

On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 08:34 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> 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
>
After I downgraded to 0.24.2 I was able to run mythtv-setup, and noticed
"automatic backup" (on upgrade, maybe) is set to false. I think I did
that. Mystery solved.
Ross