[gentoo-dev] mysql-4.1.12 call for testers

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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Ok, the MySQL-4.1 work is finally nearing completing (it doesn't eat my
data anymore, so now you get to see if it eats your data instead).

MySQL-4.1.12 is in the tree (hard-masked), and I would like lots of early testing.
MySQL-4.0.24-r2 is also in the tree (hard-masked) for testing, and contains
some of the improvements in the 4.1 ebuilds, like the new pkg_config, and the
updated init.d script.

Warnings:
This upgrade is going to be very rough (worse than OpenLDAP-2.2).
1. mysqldump everything to SQL (save this backup! going back to 4.0 is harder!)
2. write down your user permissions, and plaintext passwords if you know them.
3. move your old /var/lib/mysql out of the way.
4. emerge unmerge mysql
5. emerge =mysql-4.1*
6. revdep-rebuild as needed (might help to do libwww manually first).
7. ebuild mysql-4.1.12.ebuild config - very important, the main 'mysql' database has a lot of structural changes.
8. make a copy of your SQL from #1, and remove the 'mysql' database.
9. import the edited SQL
10. redo your user permissions.

Many thanks to Francesco Riosa <BastianBalthazarBux@pnpitalia.it> for his hard
work in dealing with MySQL-4.1. He's joining Gentoo soon as a new developer to
help maintain MySQL for the 4.1 and 5.0 series, and hopefully also providing a
package for the official MySQL AB binaries.

There are several supporting ebuilds in the tree as well, so that things can
compile with 4.1 as needed.
dev-db/myodbc-3.51.11
dev-perl/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2219-r2
net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r3

I suspect that tetex may need the patch that libwww uses, as tetex bundles a
libwww source IIRC.

If 4.0.24-r2 works fine, I'd like to move it to ~arch on May 20, before I go on
my week-long vacation. If the 4.1 testing goes smoothly, it might be a
candidate for ~arch as soon as early June.

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