Robin H. Johnson posted on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:26:03 +0000 as excerpted: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:11:13AM +0000, Duncan wrote: >> It's automagic from here. I just run kde. What it does, I don't know. >> I just don't want it to break! (And upgrade implications will get >> worse with kde 4.5 in August, as kmail will be depending on it then, >> and users tend to get rather cross when their mail store gets hosed! >> With 4.4, it's mainly the address book.) > All of that is under the Akonadi side of KDE. I really don't think > storing mail inside MySQL is going to be a good idea.
Me neither, but I'm just a user. <shrug> >> What I was suggesting, between the lines, is to coordinate with the kde >> project. They may want to create their own upgrade document [,etc.] > I announced it 2 weeks ago, on February 1st, Message-Id: > robbat2-20100201t012126-6370737...@orbis-terrarum.net Is there a bug on it for the KDE folks? Should I open one? I /am/ going to post a message to the kde lists (where I'm a regular) asking about mysql upgrades there. We'll see what they say. > As soon as the 72 hours on this news announcement are done, I'm going to > be unmasking it. I do expect most of the breakage to come from the > client libraries, and NOT any actual data storage issues. If MySQL > detects that it's not safe to access a table, it does give you a > suitable error to repair the table. > > mysql_upgrade is actually really just running 'CHECK TABLE ... FOR > UPGRADE;' && 'REPAIR TABLE ...' on tables with something that needs to > change. Doing a 'REPAIR TABLE ...' globally will cover you if you don't > have any other way to issue the check statements manually. > > That is of course me assuming that you have a way to issue 'REPAIR TABLE > ...', because that's a critical MySQL command for the DBA/user to know > in managing their data. I'd think KDE would have mysql upgrade methods documented, if they're going to be using the software. But there's a lot of stuff I'd have thought, before the kde4 upgrade mess, that I'm considerably more cynical about now... <shrug> -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
