Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:00:53 -0600 From: Marius Schamschula <lists@schamschula.com> To: Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing owncloud downgrades mysql57 Message-ID: <6339668B-09F1-429B-B061-E5294271F498@schamschula.com> In-Reply-To: <56AB7AD6.6060100@ohlste.in> References: <937D197D-F170-4222-A028-572692385DE6@schamschula.com> <56AB601E.2080904@infracaninophile.co.uk> <413CD012-8261-43C6-AE43-D6B8D231C2BC@schamschula.com> <56AB7AD6.6060100@ohlste.in>
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Jim, Great catch! Currently installing… Thanks! On Jan 29, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in> wrote: > > > On 1/29/16 9:21 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote: >> Matthew, >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Jan 29, 2016, at 6:50 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> On 01/29/16 12:14, Marius Schamschula wrote: >>>> I’m new to FreeBSD, but rather familiar to *NIX OSs (20 years of >>>> various flavors of Linux, IRIX and (Mac) OS X/Darwin). >>>> >>>> I'm attempting to install owncloud-8.2.2 under FreeBSD 10.2.> >>>> I previously have installed mysql57 client and server. To my dismay I find >>>> >>>> Installed packages to be REMOVED: >>>> mysql57-server-5.7.10_1 >>>> mysql57-client-5.7.10_1 >>>> >>>> to be replaced by >>>> mysql56-client: 5.6.27 >>>> >>>> No mention no replacement of mysql56-server. I’m not sure how >>>> owncloud is expected to work w/o a working mysql-server. Never mind >>>> that there may be backward incompatible changes between mysql56 and >>>> mysql57. >>> >>> That's one of those things: mysql57-client was removed because it >>> conflicts with mysql56-client, and then mysql57-server was removed >>> because it depends on mysql57-client. However, once that happens, >>> there's nothing that depends on mysql56-server to bring it in: your >>> owncloud application only depends on mysqlXX-client -- which makes sens >>> if you think about it: your mysql server could be on an entirely >>> different machine and then you'ld be annoyed if you were forced to >>> install mysqlXX-server where it wasn't needed. >> >> Make sense. >> >>>> It is somewhat unclear to me where in the dependency tree >>>> mysql56-client: 5.6.27 is specified, i.e. if owncloud or one of its >>>> dependencies makes this request. >>>> >>>> I suppose I could do a mysqldump, and restore into mysql56-server, >>>> but I really want to be using the current stable branch (as defined >>>> upstream). >>>> >>>> Is there any way to specify which version of mysql to use, i.e. a >>>> variant? Under MacPorts I’d use something like >>>> >>>> port install owncloud +mysql57 >>>> >>>> (if there were such a package - the case insensitive files system >>>> precludes installing owncloud under OS X). >>> >>> This is a well known limitation of binary packages under FreeBSD at the >>> moment. Dependencies on exact versions of packages are baked in, which >>> means it is particularly hard to use alternate versions of software >>> systems like python or php or perl and the system provided packages. >>> >>> Mysql as a case in point is always going to be harder to substitute in >>> because here the specific dependency is required because of the >>> libmysql.so ABI version. >>> >>> However, the answer here is to compile your own packages -- effectively >>> the same as what you're doing with MacPorts. To do that, look at this >>> section in the Handbook: >>> >>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html >>> >>> To prefer ports to build and link against mysql57, add this to the >>> DEFAULT_VERSIONS variable in /etc/make.conf: >>> >>> DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= mysql=5.7 >> >> Unfortunately, this didn’t work for me. After creating (copying from share/examples) /etc/make.conf and adding DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= mysql=5.7 to the file, I cded to /usr/ports/www/owncloud and ran >> >> # make install >> ===> owncloud-8.0.4 cannot install: unknown MySQL version: 57. >> *** Error code 1 >> >> Stop. > > You're using an outdated ports collection as the current owncloud version is 8.2.2. I'm guessing that's why MySQL 5.7 isn't recognized. Try upgrading it with portsnap or svn. > > >> >> This is strange, as mysql57-* are still installed. I then commented out the DEFAULT_VERSIONS line in /etc/make.conf and got the same result. >> >> Is there a master list of the allowed versions of mysql, etc.? A quick search did not come up with anything other than https://wiki.freebsd.org/DEFAULT_VERSIONS and Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has >> >> MYSQL_DEFAULT?= 5.6 >> >> which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid… >> >> I also checked the owncloud Makefile and saw nothing requiring a specific version of mysql. >> >>> (There are many other bits of software you can switch default versions >>> in the same way) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Matthew >> >> >> TIA, >> >> Marius >> -- >> Marius Schamschula >> >> >> > -- > Jim Ohlstein > > > "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain Marius -- Marius Schamschula
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