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From: Bastian Balthazar Bux <BastianBalthazarBux@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] mysql 4.1 status
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:11:52
Message-Id: 42822ED2.1020509@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] mysql 4.1 status by Ben Munat
1 BastianBalthazarBux is the surname for Francesco Riosa .
2 Actually the _stable_ ebuild on my site and the one attached to bug
3 83011 are very similar (identical?).
4
5 Ben Munat wrote:
6 > Andy Dustman wrote:
7 >
8 >> Bastian's ebuilds work well for both 4.1 and 5.0:
9 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83011
10 >
11 >
12 > Yeah, I've been reading that thread and considering using the ebuild. My
13 > head starts to spin a bit though, with all the intersecting "here's a
14 > patch for this" and "make sure you read that", etc.
15 >
16 >> I think both 4.1 and 5.0 should be merged into the Portage tree.
17
18 Don't know very much for others, I have still problem with 5.0
19 (runtime), don't ask to be less vague, it's simply not investigated
20 enough now.
21
22 >
23 >
24 > *Can anyone reading this give me ANY indication how long it will be
25 > before this happens?* (Robin? You around?) If it'll happen in the next
26 > week or two I'll wait. If no one has any idea when it'll happen, I guess
27 > I'll do it this weekend.
28
29 They should be inside the tree very soon, 99% before than two weeks, it
30 will be not masked stable anyway for some time.
31
32 >
33 >> BTW, to minimize downtime, you can upgrade like this:
34 >>
35 >> emerge --onlydeps =mysql-5.0.4_beta && \
36 >> emerge --buildpkg --nodeps =mysql-5.0.4_beta
37 >> # dump data, shutdown server
38 >> emerge --unmerge mysql && \
39 >> emerge --usepkg =mysql-5.0.4_beta
40 >> # start server, reload data
41 >> revdep-rebuild # should not be needed for 4.1 to 5.0 upgrade
42 >
43 >
44 > This is nice but I'm fine with 4.1... for which I should use Francesco's
45 > overlay and for which these instructions won't work at all, correct? He
46 > has some instructions on his site that seem pretty straightforward.
47 >
48 > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
49 >> You may want to compile net-libs/libwww without "mysql" use flag or go
50 >> to bug 85783
51 >
52 > Looking at that bug, however, it looks like there's a patch for libwww
53 > that fixes that problem. Should I use the patch or compile libwww
54 > without "mysql" use flag? I use vpopmail, which uses libmysqlclient...
55 > doesn't that have something to do with libwww?
56
57 choose the better solution for you, patching require another bit of
58 overlay, build without mysql support only a command like:
59 # echo "net-libs/libwww -mysql" >> /etc/portage/package.use
60
61 enjoy
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