Comment 3 for bug 1094739

On 13-01-02 11:18 AM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> I think the easiest solution for you would be to just comment out the
> line in the cron job in /etc.

Yeah. I've done that in the meanwhile.

> If we ever add something else to that
> cron job it will do a conffile prompt on upgrade.

Right. Yet another conffile modification to resolve on every upgrade.
There are just too many in Ubuntu in general anymore so thus my search
for an cleaner solution.

> The other solution would be for there to be a switch in something in
> /etc/default/mythtv-database or /etc/default/mythtv-common or similar
> that enabled/disabled the backup. You would run into the same problem
> with conffile prompts should we add anything to that /etc/default file
> at any time.

Right. But at least if such changes were in a more common file like
those in /etc/default, there is a hope that one could whack a bunch of
"diff"s all in one file rather than having to resolve multiple files in
a given package.

> What's better for you?

Neither. :-) But having to choose one or the other, the latter I suppose.

Cheers.