On Sep 15, 2014, at 10:37 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Sep 15, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>>
>>> Is a dot "." a legal character in variant names?
>>
>> Oh, you're right, we have been avoiding dots in variant names. We have a
>> lint check that says "use [A-Za-z0-9_]+ only".
>>
>> Using "-" in a variant name probably actually causes a problem (because it
>> could get confused with the syntax for disabling a variant). However I'm not
>> sure if "." is really a problem or if we were just being overly cautious and
>> could relax that restriction.
>
> Personally I would be in favour of +mysql5.5, +mariadb10.0 (also in
> favour of renaming the port to mysql-5.5)
Developing documentation or scripts to help users move their mysql databases in
var/db/name_mysql and conf files in etc/name_mysql, would make
replacing/renaming the mysqls' (mysql4, mysql5, mysql51, mysql55, mysql56,
mariadb, mariadb-10.0, mariadb-10.1, soon soon mysql-5.7) much easier to
support.
Lack of support time is the primary reason I have not replaced mysql{4,5} with
mysql5{1 or 5}. I believe we need a community support plan for such a move, or
someone more courageous then I.
Would it be worth developing a basic script to include with the "mysql_select"
port that safely moves db and conf files, appending a timestamp to existing
dirs? Does someone have one already?
Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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