Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a dedicated gentoo profile for commercial mysql support

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>]

maillog: 22/04/2005-15:18:31(-0700): Matthew Marlowe types
> 
> PROPOSAL:
> --------------------
> Creation of a "commercial/amd64/mysql" profile under
> /usr/portage/profiles.  The directory structure is setup so that any
> other developers could create dedicated profiles for similiar
> commercial support w/o cluttering up the tree.  Everything would be
> under /usr/portage/profiles/commercial.
> 
> I would initially use default-linux/amd64/2005.0/no-multilib as the
> base for modification as this is what I currently use on our servers.
> 
> After submitting the new profile and testing it, I would create online
> documentation that both gentoo and mysql could reference to and
> provide ongoing maintenance for the profile- but would avoid making
> any significant changes other than at 6-12 month intervals.
> 
> As for the mysql installation itself on these boxes, these would be
> binaries provided by mysql for two reasons:
> 
> 1) Mysql binaries are compiled with icc which could provide
> significant performance gains for the targeted user base.  Untill icc
> is fully compatible with portage, I'd rather avoid installing icc
> myself on customer boxes.

Are you sure you didn't miss something here? icc and amd64?

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