2011/2/4 Ángel Velásquez <an...@archlinux.org>: > 2011/2/4 Andrea Scarpino <and...@archlinux.org>: >> On Friday 04 February 2011 16:41:06 Ángel Velásquez wrote: >>> Talking with Andrea on irc he told to us (Ionut, me and the rest who >>> were present) that he would like to wait until 5.5.9 is out. >>> >>> AFAIK 5.5.9 haven't setted a release day yet, so can we move this and >>> then wait for the 5.5.9?, I think doing this rebuild and wait for >>> 5.5.9 without know if it will be released on two months or so is too >>> much, if somebody know when will be the release date please tell us >>> and can we planify then, but now mysql rebuild is stucked on >>> [testing]. >> Yes, I'd like to wait until 5.5.9, but I understand that we don't know when >> MySQL devs will release it. >> >> I just added two patches to our MySQL in [testing], I didn't rebuild it so >> you >> can add something else or write a better post_install message. :) >> >>> I vote for move this to [extra] I can take the responsability if it's >>> needed to check bugs of mysql package until Andrea is back from exams >> Thank you. If you take the responsability I vote +1 for the move and I'll try >> to be present as much as I can (will be hard). >> >> Another note Angel: maybe in the announcement you should write that example, >> archive, blackhole and federated engine are now disabled. >> >> -- >> Andrea >> > > Ok here is the draft: > > Title: MySQL 5.5 update > > Hi people, MySQL 5.5 (5.5.8) is on [extra] . This time we disabled > Archive, Blackhole and Federated engine support. MySQL 5.5 is now in [extra]. This is a major version upgrade from the 5.1 editions previously in the repositories. Archive, Blackhole, and Federated engine support are no longer included in this package (ed: is there a why here? we should tell them if so).
> > After doing -Syu please do: After upgrading the MySQL package and restarting the database, you will need to run `mysql_upgrade` to ensure your tables are up to date and compatible with MySQL 5.5. > > /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart && mysql_upgrade > > Please feel free to add or remove words, or rephrase the announce. > > Have fun s/on/in/, a bit more full sentence-y, and attempting to provide people with the why and not just blind commands to run. -Dan
