From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 23:02:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B63916A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C89343D97 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 9763 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jan 2004 06:59:21 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 23 Jan 2004 06:59:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.alphaque.com [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0N6QcDQ003978; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:26:39 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:26:38 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair To: Christer Solskogen In-Reply-To: <4569.148.121.98.106.1074790312.squirrel@carebears.mine.nu> Message-ID: <20040123141915.F532-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading mysql X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:02:14 -0000 On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Christer Solskogen wrote: > I was wondering upgrading the mysql ports to 4.x series. should this be > okay? > > gallery-1.4.1 ,p5-Mysql-modules-1.2219, php4-4.3.4_5, phpMyAdmin-2.5.4, > phpSysInfo-2.1 and squirrelmail-1.4.2_1 seems to like mysql-3, and i was > wondering if these ports will work with mysql4. it should be alright, as iirc, mysql has not changed it's sql syntax from 3.x to 4.x. in fact, 4.x is now the production release. > and if this works, how will be the correct way of upgrading the mysql > packages? you'd have less problems using portupgrade to upgrade your existing mysql 3.x to 4.x. portupgrade will take care of the dependencies to 3.x from your existing installed applications correctly. once this is done, then install your latest app which requires 4.x seamlessly thru ports or or portinstall. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+