Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:08:34PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: On 2005-05-19 Steve Langasek wrote: Thus BDB support could now complete been removed as luckily support for BDB was not present on most architectures, disabled by default and being warned at startup for a while now and

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Steve On 2005-05-19 Steve Langasek wrote: Thus BDB support could now complete been removed as luckily support for BDB was not present on most architectures, disabled by default and being warned at startup for a while now and will most likely be removed in 5.0 upstream anyway. I

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:33:01PM -0400, sean finney wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:00:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: ... Other issues like #308762 are also still possible on direct mysql-server/woody - mysql-server-4.1/sarge upgrade paths - and there will be users doing such upgrade

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: ... I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to coordinate with him and get something uploaded soon if you want to try for this

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:08:28PM +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace a package-provided

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:01:58AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: ... I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to coordinate with

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Sean, On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:23:35AM -0400, sean finney wrote: the following upgrade paths work: mysql-server/woody - mysql-server/sarge mysql-server/woody - mysql-server/sarge - mysql-server-4.1/sarge but this does not: mysql-server/woody - mysql-server-4.1/sarge so at this

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [1st RC issue - dpkg removes symlinks when upgrading from 3.23] As discussed before in some corner cases we can do nothing except for showing the user an explanation what happened which has been done in 4.1.11a-2 and 4.0.24-10. [2nd RC issue - statically linked db3] The new bug

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:16:55AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: On 2005-05-18 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1 will

RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
(please excuse the cross-posting, i felt it was necessary to get all affected parties' input) hi, for some time now, christian and i have been trying to build in a workaround for a rather tricky bug in the mysql-server and mysql-server-4.1 packages, and we'd like to field some comments on what

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1 will even run before mysql-server/woody is removed. the only fix we can think of is to remove the two directories from the

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:00:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: 4 drop mysql-dfsg-4.1 from unstable/sarge not exactly an attractive option, but i guess everything is on the table at this point so it's worth bringing up... the reverse dependencies aren't nearly as severe as i had assumed, actually,

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:23:35AM -0400, sean finney wrote: ... the following upgrade paths work: mysql-server/woody - mysql-server/sarge mysql-server/woody - mysql-server/sarge - mysql-server-4.1/sarge but this does not: mysql-server/woody - mysql-server-4.1/sarge so at this point,

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [1st issue - dpkg symlink bug workaround] On 2005-05-18 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1 will even run before

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Christian Hammers wrote: Hello [1st issue - dpkg symlink bug workaround] On 2005-05-18 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1