[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase autorun config file location error

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:31:13AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >The scripts should be changed. But the new packages should
> >auto-migrate the config values to ~mythtv/, so that the user doesn't
> >notice the transition other than he would miss the legacy location of
> >the files, should he be looking for them.
> >
> >Maybe something to fix for 0.21 packages or packages from SVN, since
> >the migration scripts could be breaking something.

> Wow.  I'm impressed with your RPM-foo.  I didn't think that would be 
> possible.

Thanks :)
To be honest I think every packaging system out there has the ability
to run arbitrary scripts before/after installation/updates/deinstallation.

> >There are a couple of reasons that make mythbackend run as non-root
> >an issue on some or all dists.
> ...
> >So the hurdle to run as non-root is quite high, and in some cases
> >the user would not notice that some issues (like bad latency) would
> >come from running as non-root.

> Right.  It won't always be possible, and the packagers for particular 
> distros likely know the issues much better than users would.

I doubt that. :)

> (And I can 
> guarantee that packagers for distros definitely know the issues better 
> than I.)

I double-doubt that. :) :)

> Based on the number of times this has come up, I doubt that FC is the 
> only distro with this issue,

No, indeed the issues should be similar across most distros, although
some like Debian have a nicer (IMHO) group based permission
system. But probably no distribution ships by default with the more or
less still experimental non-root user capabilities (although I haven't
really check for quite some while)

> Hmmm.  Wondering about the ugly, yet functional, symlink /root/.mythtv 
> -> /home/mythtv/.mythtv as a preventative measure...

I think /root/.mythtv should be considered a bug and be moved away
(migrated) w/o any symlink. The remaining damage is user reeducation
on this part, e.g. hunting down docs, wiki and guide references to
/root subdirs.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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