From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EVXaS-0003km-TO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:00:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9SGwxbV014221; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:58:59 GMT Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it (85-18-21-122.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.21.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9SGv60I016579 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:57:06 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E6B7AD6F8; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:57:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (db [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04223-06; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:57:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from host-4-153.pnpitalia.it (host-4-153.pnpitalia.it [192.168.4.153]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A187AD6F6; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:57:05 +0200 (CEST) From: "Francesco R." Organization: PNP Italia To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Slotted MySQL ; mysql-herd Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:57:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 Cc: "Robin H. Johnson" Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510281857.04603.vivo@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at db X-Archives-Salt: 0bdc1f9b-2a35-47df-bf69-8bd117e0b556 X-Archives-Hash: 4b8c5af00a824ca4df9c3210e237ac2f There are these ebuilds in cvs from few minutes: mysql-4.0.26-r30.ebuild mysql-4.1.15-r30.ebuild mysql-5.0.15-r30.ebuild these ones contain a starting point ebuild to make a slotted mysql installation. The motivations that push this choice are both developement and user side. Making a long story short there are two points: We want to support every major.minor version of mysql, having slotted mysql make life easyer to developers in testing all supported versions. User side, slotted mysql server and client make possible a smooter upgrade, keeping downtimes to the minimum (a stop and start in the best case). ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Further these days I was wondering to populate a bit more "mysql-herd" of developers and packages, also to cover my personal lack of knowledge on some languages (deeper explanation in private mails ;-) So if you're interested in join the herd, let me know (sorry non-dev, I cannot mentor these days). I'm listed on devaway from 2005-10-01 to 2005-10-10, will answer when I'll come back. Cheers, Francesco Riosa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list