jakep_82 at hotmail
Aug 6, 2007, 1:33 PM
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Re: Can we get an update on the status ofSchedulesDirect.org?
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>From: Brad DerManouelian <myth[at]dermanouelian.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can we get an update on the status
>ofSchedulesDirect.org?
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:17:32 -0700
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>On Aug 6, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
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> > On Monday 06 August 2007 13:57, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >
> >>> I suppose we could all just put the new IP in our /etc/hosts file
> >>> as the old
> >>> name, and tell nsswitch.conf to check files before dns, a
> >>> little "non-standard", but it should work, as long as the new
> >>> system is a
> >>> single static IP. (I think that would be called a "hack").
> >>
> >> Oy.. imagine the mail activity on that one. How about just check
> >> whatever fix is needed into SVN and -fixes and make people
> >> upgrade? :)
> >
> > A LOT of people do not run SVN or -fixes versions, but packaged
> > setups.
> > Forcing all those folks to start checking out from SVN, or even
> > compiling
> > fixes trees, would more than likely cause more traffic on this list
> > than a
> > simple IP mapping hack.
> >
> > However, I suspect that there will be enough other changes to make
> > such a
> > simple hack non-workable. Let's hope the various packagers do their
> > usual
> > good job of keeping up with changes.
>
>I think most repositories offer -fixes (if not all).
It seems to me the easiest solution would be to take current -fixes, add the
required changes for SchedulesDirect, and make a 0.20.2 official release.
Then it would be up to the various packagers to update, but we're 4 weeks
away and counting so I hope this happens soon.
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