Ryan, the below and your other comments, I will work on a machine in which I have some luxuries to do clean installs and wipe prefix at my leisure. I will see what I can do to present a clean and clear update to the wiki.
I think this should be in the wiki, just so you guys get the google love out of it, rather than in the port port-install messages, which will do no good to get any visibility in google, which is still a problem for MP's. I will start with MySql, and work my way through each of the ports, until we have sectional installs for AM and P, then see how I can logically chain those instructions together into the MAMP wiki pages. Thanks. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> From this page: >> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP >> Step 3 >> >> sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db5 >> sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/ >> sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/ >> sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/log/mysql5/ >> >> If that doesn’t work try this: >> >> sudo mysql_install_db5 >> sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/ >> sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/ >> >> First, what would cause the first set of steps to fail, and what can we do >> to make sure they do not? Second, other than the `mysql_install_db5`, I >> believe the rest of that work should be done in the Portfile, unless there >> is good reason not to. > > The "If that doesn't work" bit has always irritated me rather a lot. It's > stupid. If you have time to figure it out, please do and correct the > instructions. But as you say, it should be possible to delete the whole > section, since it's telling you to do things the port already does -- the > port already sets the permissions, and it already prints a message telling > you to run mysql_install_db5; I'm in favor of having the installation > documented either in the port's post-install or on a web page but not both. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
