From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQeMr-0006os-Sj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:08:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D885E0967 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:08:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83CEE09AF for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84344247; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:12:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:12:45 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: zWJ9vzX0gqpkAsCc9TKfFXgME/Md3K1vk99lPZ1FK6dl 1291889564 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5023F40259B for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:12:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4D00AB94.6010809@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:12:36 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101107 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <201012090328.00447.wonko@wonkology.org> <4D006771.5090707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6E9C40A96971360BC9180709" X-Archives-Salt: 7b56158d-1762-4452-a145-11f499a2cf27 X-Archives-Hash: 3550679cf902acaa96a7f6650d209097 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6E9C40A96971360BC9180709 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 09.12.2010 10:33, schrieb Duncan: > Dale posted on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:21:53 -0600 as excerpted: >=20 >> Alex Schuster wrote: >=20 >>> If you are running databases like mysql, you need to export the >>> databases and import them later. This is because they are in binary >>> format, and the datatypes are different in x86 and amd64 world. >=20 >> I don't have anything that I generated anyway. I have something >> installed that KDE pulled in if I recall correctly. I'll let KDE star= t >> off fresh tho. >> >> This does bring me to another thought tho. Would I be able to copy my= >> /home directory over from a x86 system? I'm thinking I would but want= >> to make sure. >=20 > In general, the same /home should be fine, 32-bit or 64-bit. >=20 > However, kde4 uses a database for akonadi. With older versions (thru 4= =2E3=20 > at least), it was mysql by default. [...] Same issue with Amarok. >=20 > I wasn't aware of a 32/64 mysql database incompatibility, but assuming = > Alex is correct, you might experience issues with that mysql/akonadi=20 > dependency, if you're still using an older kde or if you migrate the sa= me=20 > home (with the mysql config) over. But as long as you either don't use= =20 > akonadi (with 4.4/4.5 it's used for the address book but not for kmail = > itself; I don't know about kopete/etc as I don't do IRC/IM), or already= =20 > have it configured for the sqlite backend, and aren't using mysql for=20 > anything else, you should be fine. >=20 So sqlite does not have any compatibility issues? I tried searching for it for a moment but could not find anything so I guess, no. If it has issues, you also have to think about the sqlite database in Firefox, Seamonkey etc. --------------enig6E9C40A96971360BC9180709 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0Aq5gACgkQqs4uOUlOuU8OBACfQ083kmSIpDxyZeaWj+rvEyz4 8acAmwWeA6X3t3wuW131uMMqtk/mY0LU =DW1U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6E9C40A96971360BC9180709--