BastianBalthazarBux is the surname for Francesco Riosa . Actually the _stable_ ebuild on my site and the one attached to bug 83011 are very similar (identical?).
Ben Munat wrote: > Andy Dustman wrote: > >> Bastian's ebuilds work well for both 4.1 and 5.0: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83011 > > > Yeah, I've been reading that thread and considering using the ebuild. My > head starts to spin a bit though, with all the intersecting "here's a > patch for this" and "make sure you read that", etc. > >> I think both 4.1 and 5.0 should be merged into the Portage tree. Don't know very much for others, I have still problem with 5.0 (runtime), don't ask to be less vague, it's simply not investigated enough now. > > > *Can anyone reading this give me ANY indication how long it will be > before this happens?* (Robin? You around?) If it'll happen in the next > week or two I'll wait. If no one has any idea when it'll happen, I guess > I'll do it this weekend. They should be inside the tree very soon, 99% before than two weeks, it will be not masked stable anyway for some time. > >> BTW, to minimize downtime, you can upgrade like this: >> >> emerge --onlydeps =mysql-5.0.4_beta && \ >> emerge --buildpkg --nodeps =mysql-5.0.4_beta >> # dump data, shutdown server >> emerge --unmerge mysql && \ >> emerge --usepkg =mysql-5.0.4_beta >> # start server, reload data >> revdep-rebuild # should not be needed for 4.1 to 5.0 upgrade > > > This is nice but I'm fine with 4.1... for which I should use Francesco's > overlay and for which these instructions won't work at all, correct? He > has some instructions on his site that seem pretty straightforward. > > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: >> You may want to compile net-libs/libwww without "mysql" use flag or go >> to bug 85783 > > Looking at that bug, however, it looks like there's a patch for libwww > that fixes that problem. Should I use the patch or compile libwww > without "mysql" use flag? I use vpopmail, which uses libmysqlclient... > doesn't that have something to do with libwww? choose the better solution for you, patching require another bit of overlay, build without mysql support only a command like: # echo "net-libs/libwww -mysql" >> /etc/portage/package.use enjoy -- [email protected] mailing list
