[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: MySQL 5.1 bump

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Robin H. Johnson posted on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:14:08 +0000 as excerpted:

> Title: MySQL 5.1 unmasking and upgrade procedures Author: Robin H.
> Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2010-02-15
> Revision: 2
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: <dev-db/mysql-5.1
> 
> The 5.1 series of MySQL is going to be unmasked at the same time as the
> release of this news item. When upgrading from an older major version
> (including 5.0), you will be required to rebuild everything linked to
> the libmysqlclient.so.15.
> 
> You can do this by installing app-portage/gentoolkit and running: #
> revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15
> 
> If you use the Portage 2.2 series, you may also use: # emerge
> @preserved-rebuild
> 
> The official upgrade docs are available here:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrade.html

FWIW, there's a lot of folks running mysql now that weren't before, due to 
the kde 4 thing.  I'm one of them, so this is of personal interest.

From your reply to Dawid W, it appears that database upgrades will need to 
be done as well.  Please specifically mention that, perhaps by changing 
the reference to the official upgrade docs as so:

"""

Note that existing databases will need converted as well,
again including those upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1.
Details can be found in the official upgrade docs at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrade.html

"""

If you wish to put the unofficial upgrade recommendation in too, that 
would be fine.

Hopefully that'll cover us users that don't particularly care about 
databases, we just want our kde to work... and it'll continue to do so. 
=:^)  (IOW, are there any particularly different procedures for upgrading 
databases in user's $HOME dirs?  Perhaps a note for kde users telling them 
where their databases are located so they /can/ back them up, etc.)

Thanks!

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