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On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:53:14 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 17:42:02 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> > Hi! |
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> > |
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> > amarok 2.x insists on mysql 5.x [embedded,-minimal]. OTOH, I strongly |
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> > need to have (not embedded) mysql 4.1.x to be working, and, as a result, |
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> > use these |
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> > lines in package.mask: |
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> > >=virtual/mysql-5.0 |
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> > >=dev-db/mysql-5.0 |
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> > Is there a workaround to resolve the issue? |
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> Not really, Amarok wants something absurd out of MySQL. There's a huge |
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> thread on bugs.gentoo.org |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238487 |
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> that describes the problem in detail. I suppose you *could* build mysql |
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> with USE="embedded -minimal" to satisfy Amarok and then hand build a local |
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> copy of mysql-4.1.x in /usr/local for the existing usage. But this is not |
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> something I've tried or heard of someone else trying. There's also some |
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> tips about following the same process other binary distros use to build a |
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> useable Amarok. It's complex, and stupid in the extreme (blame the Amarok |
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> devs for that) but does seem to work for other distros. |
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Alan, |
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Thanks for the information! |
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> You could also wait a few days for the ebuild maintainer to finish looking |
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> into mysql-community; or go back to Amarok-1.4; or switch to mpd and dump |
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> Amarok altogether. |
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Last months I am just here - using mpd :-) |
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