At 6:06 PM +0100 6/5/02, Phil Dobbin wrote: >On 5/6/02 at 09:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stepanek) wrote: > >> Well I think it hosed my MySql install, so I'd be >> careful. >> concurrently I installed a couple of fink binaries and >> the 10.1.5 upgrade. After this mysqld would not run. I >> had to re-install it. Given than the fink binaries >> were just perm modules, I suspect the problem was the >> system update. > >I've got mysql installed in /usr/local/ (not via fink), so I'm >thinking after reading what you've said, what with the cpan stuff as >well, I may well leave it till Jagwire.
I would generally recommend that if you install something that the system already has, you install it in a place where the system did not. /usr/local is typical, fink uses /usr/sw which annoys me, but whatever. The main point is that your worst case will be losing the startup files that *start* your software--but you won't lose your software. -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC http://consulting.somewhere.com/ I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
