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

[Francesco Riosa <francesco@pnpitalia.it>]

Matthew Marlowe wrote:
<too big snip because I'm writing in vncviever>
- there are tests that show mysql compiled with icc much faster,
obviously only on intel box
- you can find a very basic ebuild for mysql-bin at b.g.o/83424
- packages for mysql-4.1 have been dowloaded hundreds times starting
2004-12 from b.g.o/83011 and http://www.francesco-riosa.com/gentoo/
  very few reported bugs, mostly ebuild related (not mysql fault)
- the story is totally different if you look at mysql-5.0 or gcc-4.0
currently there are 74 Mb of compile/test log that can document it.
- on the server maillist the idea of a slow update / hyper stable branch
has been not very well accepted as far as I can remember.

LIFO proposal

- Learn from TV, update your server in "differita" <- translate as
needed.  Follow the updates of the main stable branch ... delayed 4 weeks.
 You will have a 100 times more tested tree than the hyper stable one.
We need a handly way to do this
- Apart from the icc compiled ones avoid the use of precompiled binary.
  MySQL compiling and running depends from few other things:
  = linux-headers  / kernel ?
  = glibc
  = gcc / compiler
  = crypt
  = ssh
  = readline
  = perl
  = nsl
  = tcp wrappers
Ask to MySQL ab what version of theese they certify and build in loco
the stuff should be non plus ultra

Best regards
Francesco Riosa

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