[mythtv] Upgrade database from command line

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Grant Gardner <grant at lastweekend.com.au> wrote:
> On 3 September 2014 23:20, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
>> On 02/09/14 23:38, Grant Gardner wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a mechanism to upgrade the database from the command line?
>>>
>>> I know that both mythtv-setup and mythbackend will do the upgrade, but I
>>> need something that can exit when the upgrade is complete.
>>>
>>
>> We have talked about adding a --bootstrap mode to allow the backend
>> to initialize the DB and bring it up to date. eg.
>>
>> mythbackend --bootstrap --dbuser <user> --dbpasswd <passwd> --dbname <db>
>>
>> It's all part of being able to configure mythtv via the backend web
>> server.
>>
>> Would something along these lines work for what you are thinking?
>>
>
> Yep, perfect.  Shall I just have a crack at writing a patch for that?
>
>>
>> Regards
>> Stuart Auchterlonie
>>
>>
>>> This is to support the experimentation I am doing with MythTV and Docker
>>> containers.
>>>
>>> I can see the opportunity to provide a command line option to
>>> mythbackend or mythutil.
>>>
>>> If I was to write a feature patch which would be the best place to do it?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>>            Grant
>>>
>>>
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IIRC, patches are always welcome. If you do decide to do this, can you
somehow incorporate a "default db settings" file or something? I'm
working on some packaging issues that we discussed in #mythtv
regarding our (Mythbuntu) default DB, but I really need a way to set
some defaults in the DB (eg. theme, storage group location, etc) and
I'm not finding a non-hacky way to do that.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos