Sriram Natarajan wrote: > > > Sunanda Menon wrote: >> >> Sriram Natarajan wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> I was wondering, if I can hear every one's thoughts as to should >>> we deliver a symbolic link of apache, php and mysql binaries (at >>> least some of the most commonly) used under /usr/bin ? For example, >>> some of the commonly used binaries like ab, apxs, httpd, >>> httpd.worker, php, php-cgi, mysql, mysqladmin should have a symbolic >>> link under /usr/bin ? One argument for having this under /usr/bin is >>> they are easy to access and customer clearly knows about this ? >>> Currently, none of this are delivered under /usr/bin and users are >>> expected to set /usr/<component>/<version> in their PATH before >>> using these. Do we still follow the same pattern ? >>> >>> If we are going to create symbolic link, then what will be the >>> expected behavior if a newer version of these components are >>> integrated ? Will the newer version of components simply over write >>> the symbolic links to point to the newer version ? >>> >> The new version simply overwrites the symbolic links . >> Thanks for starting this thread ,even for MySQL this was a big >> requirement and we did away with the symbolic links in 5.1. >> >> > can u elaborate as to what does it mean when you say 'we did away'.. For 5.0 we had usr/mysql/bin ---> /usr/mysql/5.0/bin ,but in 5.1 we have kept it as binaries being installed only in /usr/mysql/5.1/bin and the symbolic link doesn't get created as part of the package .
>> >> >>> thanks >>> sriram >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> webstack-discuss mailing list >>> webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss >>> >> >> >> -- Sunanda Menon Database Technology Group BLR03, x87098/91-80-66937098
