On Oct 2, 2020, at 17:17, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> - move my.cnf to "appropriate location" <— not sure what this means! > Surely I want it to be in /opt/local/etc/mysql8 According to "port notes mysql8" I agree that's the appropriate location. > - start mysql8 > > BUT what about the mysql8 initialization step: do I want to SKIP that, since > I already have a mysql 5.7 database to use (i.e., to upgrade automatically)? I would assume that since you already have a database, you would not want to perform the step that creates a database. > Does the initialization do anything else besides creating a new database? My guess would be no, but I don't know; you may wish to consult the MySQL documentation.
