[mythtv] [PATCH] Souces Setup in ./setup

Michael Greb mikegrb at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 6 12:24:28 EDT 2003


--- Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:14:45PM -0700, Michael Greb wrote:
> 
> > This is a slight one line change to the SQL query used to populate the
> > list of sources in the ./setup application.  When the name of a source is
> > NULL in the database, Unnamed will be displayed instead of a blank line.
> > I spent some time on IRC helping someone fix a multiple channels problem
> > because he didn't realize he had multiple sources with no name.  I had a
> > similar problem when I first setup MythTV because I wasn't familiar with
> > the key mapping and hit enter at the wrong time.  Perhaps this could be
> > committed to CVS?
> 
> How did he end up with unnamed sources?  Perhaps a check should be added to
> disallow creating them this way in the first place, as it makes diagnosis
> difficult.

It was an enter at the wrong moment, perhaps when typing zip.  I had the same
problem when setting up MythTV on my first go at it.  I think your method has
merit I am more at home with SQL then C++ though, hence my route.
Michael


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