On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:55:57PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: > After some testing on MySQL ebuild for version 4.1.x and 5.0.x appear to > me that is very difficult have a stable version of those databases with > current glibc, gcc and maybe os-headers stable defaults (at least on x86 > and amd64). > > Adding a dev-db/mysql-bin package seems the only short-term viable > solution to have those versions of mysql in portage tree. Leaving out > all the problems that dependant packages have after mysql 4.1.3 release. > > I'm going to writing an ebuild that (maybe using alternatives.eclass) > unpack the binary distribuited version of mysql in /opt/ dir and symlink > all the programs to paths currently used from the source dist. > > any input on how to write it in a way that permit it to be included in > the portage tree very apreciated, expecially that from Robin H. Johnson > a.k.a robbat2 I'd say it should be mutually exclusive of the source-built version (DEPEND=!dev-db/mysql). See about putting it's bindir into the PATH instead of messing around with symlinks. However I think it should use the same /var/lib/mysql for it's data directory.
By default it should provide the stock binaries, if USE=max, then provide the mysql-max binaries, and if USE=debug, instead provide the debugging binaries. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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