On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:44:05 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:

> Are there in fact docs available for this version yet? From MYSQL, I
> mean, not Gentoo.

Yes, in various formats from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

> Except that most of those flags are no longer valid for the unstable
> version...
> 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv mysql

I thought you were trying not to set variables on the command line :)
 
> > But now I've got worse provlems than no documentation.  I can't even 
> > start this install of mysql.
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/mysql status * status:  stopped
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/mysql start * working on 0 * Starting mysqld0
> > (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) ... .......... * MySQL NOT started (0)
> > 
> > Here is where the docs would be quite handy...

There was a note at the end of the emerge:

 * You might want to run:
 * "emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.0.16-r2"
 * if this is a new install.

did you do this?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Is it possible to be totally partial?