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From: Kirktis <kirktis@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] mysql 4.1 status
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:20:23
Message-Id: 7e6b2258050511072064aec111@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] mysql 4.1 status by Bastian Balthazar Bux
1 I'm running 4.1.10 on three gentoo servers (production) without any
2 problems or dependency hang ups whatsoever. You just have to be
3 willing to roll a good stable portage overlay. I used this as a
4 starting point:
5
6 http://www.francesco-riosa.com/gentoo/
7
8 On 5/11/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux <BastianBalthazarBux@×××××××××.it> wrote:
9 > Ben Munat wrote:
10 > > Thanks for these tips guys.
11 > >
12 > > So, do you think the safest route is to do a full sql dump of my 4.0
13 > > dbs/tables, unmerge 4.0, emerge 4.1, and then load the dump file? That
14 > > seems pretty scary to me, but the docs sound like that's the prefered
15 > > route due to the character encoding changes.
16 > >
17 > > Which approach did you use Jason? Has anyone just unamsked 4.1,
18 > > installed it over a full, active 4.0 setup, done revdep-rebuild and had
19 > > it all go fine? What problems have people had?
20 > >
21 > > Also, anyone heard of any problems with 4.1 and PHP stuff like horde or
22 > > pear?
23 > >
24 > > thanks,
25 >
26 > If you love your data dump and reload in any switch between 4.0 - 4.1 -
27 > 5.0 . The only scenario where it's not needed is for tables that have no
28 > textual fields inside.
29 >
30 > Quite everithing nowadays work with mysql-4.1 .
31 > You may want to compile net-libs/libwww without "mysql" use flag or go
32 > to bug 85783
33 > In case you are using MyODBC rename ebuild to the latest version and go
34 > with it.
35 >
36 > Here the following applications run in a production environment with
37 > mysql-4.1:
38 >
39 > Horde + Imp
40 > Postfix
41 > Courier
42 > Samba
43 > php5 -> mysqli
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