On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 09:47 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Well, any time you upgrade a database, whether or not it is MySQL, SQLite, or > PostgreSQL, there is a good probability that Bacula needs to be recompiled. > My experience is that this is rare for MySQL as long as the first two > versions do not change. For PostgreSQL, the general rule is that one must > always recompile, and worse, for PostgreSQL, you can easily corrupt your > database if you don't back it up and reload it after the upgrade. If I am not > mistaken, this is stated in the manual.
Well, this is the first time I have seen an incompatible upgrade within a current distribution. > > I didn't look at the issue of rpm requires. It seems to me that to be safe, > that the rpm should alway require exactly the same version it was built with. > This may be a bit overkill, but it is the safest. Ugh, no. Way too much overhead. > > > The best advice I have is that if you are running a production system with > Bacula or any other program that uses an SQL engine, do not upgrade your SQL > engine without upgrading all the other software that uses it. > > Concerning Fedora. I used that distribution. I dropped it because there were > just too many problems. I don't regret for a second having dropped it because > I have had *far* fewer problems. My personal problems were with FC4 and then > worse ones with FC5. In the articles I've read since then FC6 is rated even > worse. I feel sorry for any Fedora user unless he really enjoys being on the > bloody edge. > > Scott, if you would like to build and release new rpms, OK, but I think we > should be careful about letting the Fedora cowboys jerk us around. I don't > know how to go about documenting this as this particular incident doesn't > seem to be something for the manual, and all the other ways of providing > documentation don't seem to reach many of the users. If you have specific > suggestions, I'm listening. I would recommend that you send an email to the > bacula-users and bacula-devel lists describing the problem. My proposed > solutions would be:. the user reverts to the previous version of MySQL. You misunderstood, the released packages were built against a later version 5.0.24, updating to which fixed the problem. I expect this thread will serve to document it as well as any. > > Regards, > > Kern > > On Monday 04 December 2006 22:19, Scott Barninger wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 16:53 +0100, piero wrote: > > > Scott Barninger ha scritto: > > > > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 10:44 +0100, piero wrote: > > > > > > > >> Scott Barninger ha scritto: > > > >> > > > >>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:07 +0100, piero wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>> Scott Barninger ha scritto: > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>>> Piero, > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Another thought - this package has been downloaded 491 times to > > > >>>>> date > and > > > >>>>> this is the first I've seen this problem reported. This is an i386 > > > >>>>> package linked against 32-bit libs. Are you maybe running a 64-bit > > > >>>>> system? > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > >>>> I am runninn fc5 on i386 32-bit. > > > >>>> I don,t solve my problem, anyway thanks for your availability > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>> What is the result of: > > > >>> rpm -qa|grep mysql > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> I have installed also mysql-server. > > > >> > > > >> The command rpm -qa | grep mysql is now > > > >> > > > >> mysql-5.0.18-2.1 > > > >> mysql-server -5.0.18-2.1 > > > >> > > > >> I send you the file obtained whith the command : > > > >> > > > >> strace rpm -ivh bacula-mysql-1.38.11-3.fc5.i386.rpm &> rpmlog > > > >> > > > >> Thanks > > > >> > > > >> Piero > > > >> > > > > > > > > Good grief. Try updating mysql. The latest update for FC5 is 5.0.27-1. > > > > > > > G O A L > > > > > > Many and Many thanks > > > > > > Excuse me for my insistence > > > > Not at all. This is the first I ever heard of an API incompatibility on > > a minor-minor revision level. Kern - we should document this somehow, > > either Fedora or MySQL made an incompatible change between 5.0.18 and > > 5.0.27. The FC5 package will not work with 5.0.18, claiming missing > > dependency. > > > > > > > > by > > > > > > piero > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
