[ubuntu-mythtv] MythVideo metadata grabber scripts broken in frontend-only systems

[Eloy Paris]

On 11/18/2010 09:36 AM, Thomas Mashos wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net
> <mailto:peloy at chapus.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     By default, MythVideo uses /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb.py and
>     /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py as metadata grabber
>     scripts. However, these scripts are included in the mythtv-backend
>     package.
>
>     If these scripts are used by frontends when the user, interacting with
>     the frontend, chooses to download metadata, then should these scripts
>     not be included in a different package like mythtv-frontend or
>     mythtv-common?
>
>     My frontends are diskless systems and only have frontend duties so the
>     mythtv-backend package is not installed in those systems, and therefore
>     metadata grabbing is broken by default.
>
>
> Please upgrade to the latest build of MythTV using
> http://mythbuntu.org/repos
>
> I moved these scripts 2 days ago

Great, I just upgraded and things are good now.

I do follow the daily builds but had not upgraded in a few days.

Thanks a bunch for fixing this, Thomas.

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-