On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > well,, there are multiple potential "issues" at play here. > on the one hand, I understand your frustration at not having it > normally in the path. > But what would be the side effects of having a symlink > /opt/csw/bin/mysql -> /opt/csw/mysql5/bin/mysql ?
I was thinking about this... what if someone has mysql4 also installed? Perhaps some sort of "switch" app, which would change the symlinks, would be good. I need to think about it some more. > Would it break auto-detection of mysql location, when compiling? It depends on how is the autodetection done (if at all ;-) ), I'd give symlinks a shot and see if there is any yelling from the users. > It may indeed be appropriate to adjust our mysql5 package to have the > symlink in there. > > BTW: would you be intersted in taking over our mysql package, for > purposes of updating, and putting the symlink in there? > (pleasepleasepleaseplease? :-) :-) I've already done some work towards this end, but I was recently shaving a yak. I should have something to show within a week or two. I don't use MySQL on Solaris myself, I'm not sure if I'm the best candidate for a long-term MySQL maintainer, but I can at least, for the fun of it, bring the build to the form in which it works and can be easily handed off to another person. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
