Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:38:34 +0000 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: latest MySql? Message-ID: <201001131638.34451.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP487BB51C4D80EF50C541E8936B0@phx.gbl> References: <19277.29092.693534.631475@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <BLU0-SMTP487BB51C4D80EF50C541E8936B0@phx.gbl>
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> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:09:24 -0500 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> articulated: > > MySql-6.* is no longer in the ports tree. Things depend on it. > > Is there information on what happened and what the alternatives are? > > I have MySQL-6 installed. I have several applications that depend on it. > What would be the recommended method to replace it with the latest > stable release of MySQL? I see that 'portupgrade' offers quite a few > options. Would one of them work? I really do not want to have to rebuild > all of my applications that depend on MySQL-6 if possible. > > Thank you! > One of the disadvantages of being an earlier adopter and not waiting for the tribe to cross the canyon!! MySQL-6 was a development version which was not ready for production servers. Given the development issues I am not surprised it has been dropped for the time being. I think you may need to adapt any code that does not work on 5.5 to meet your needs. David
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