Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql-bin ebuild

[Francesco Riosa <francesco@pnpitalia.it>]

Robin H. Johnson ha scritto:

>On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:55:57PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
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>>After some testing on MySQL ebuild for version 4.1.x and 5.0.x appear to 
>>me that is very difficult have a stable version of those databases with 
>>current glibc, gcc and maybe os-headers stable defaults (at least on x86 
>>and amd64).
>>
>>Adding a dev-db/mysql-bin package seems the only short-term viable 
>>solution to have those versions of mysql in portage tree. Leaving out 
>>all the problems that dependant packages have after mysql 4.1.3 release.
>>
>>I'm going to writing an ebuild that (maybe using alternatives.eclass) 
>>unpack the binary distribuited version of mysql in /opt/ dir and symlink 
>>all the programs to paths currently used from the source dist.
>>
>>any input on how to write it in a way that permit it to be included in 
>>the portage tree very apreciated, expecially that from Robin H. Johnson 
>>a.k.a robbat2
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>>
>I'd say it should be mutually exclusive of the source-built version
>(DEPEND=!dev-db/mysql).  See about putting it's bindir into the PATH
>instead of messing around with symlinks. However I think it should use
>the same /var/lib/mysql for it's data directory.
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>
Ok, I'll discover how to add a /etc/env.d/98mysql

>By default it should provide the stock binaries, if USE=max, then
>provide the mysql-max binaries, and if USE=debug, instead provide the
>debugging binaries.
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IUSE="max debug innodb berkdb selinux utf8 perl ruby"

with "max" and "debug" mutually exlusive,
"innodb" "berkdb" "selinux" "utf8"  modifying  the my.cnf file
"perl" "ruby" operating on RDEPEND
?

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