I think this is good to go, let's get some comments from the list. Ben
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> Date: 24 February 2010 16:57 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Pending mask of Qt3 and MythTV To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org How about this revised news item: Title: MythTV 0.22 Upgrade Database Corruption Author: Richard Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2010-03-01 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <media-tv/mythtv-0.22 Due to an incompatibility between MythTV 0.21 and the default Gentoo MySQL configuration, it is likely that long-time MythTV users will have databases with a mixture of locale encodings. If you upgrade to 0.22 without following these directions carefully, you could end up with a database that contains errors that are extremely difficult to fix. Note that not all mythtv users need to modify their databases, and this should only be performed at the time of the upgrade. The guide below contains instructions that can be used to determine if this problem pertains to you. Please see the MythTV Upgrade Guide for instructions: http://wiki.mythtv.org/wiki/Fixing_Corrupt_Database_Encoding Be sure to save a database backup before upgrading. Also, be sure to upgrade any other clients/backends you are using to 0.22 at the same time. The upgrade instructions need to be followed once per database - individual client/backend upgrades do not require these steps. If you do run into problems with your upgrade, there is a forum thread where you may be able to find help: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-816566-highlight-.html