Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Stefano Avallone
On Wednesday 27 March 2013 11:21:45 Mike Cloaked wrote: > The question remains as to whether any action is necessary after moving > from mysql to mariadb for any user who is using Kontact and other KDE > components that rely on mariadb after the change? > > Presumably there will be some people who

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 12:22:51 Mike Cloaked wrote: > Thanks - my experience was that although I had ensured that the mysqld > service was stopped at the time of installing mariadb, it was also the case > that since there was no mention of KDE that I could see in the original > announcement I sim

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 11:21:45 Mike Cloaked wrote: > > The question remains as to whether any action is necessary after moving > > from mysql to mariadb for any user who is using Kontact and other KDE > > components that rely on mariad

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 11:21:45 Mike Cloaked wrote: > The question remains as to whether any action is necessary after moving > from mysql to mariadb for any user who is using Kontact and other KDE > components that rely on mariadb after the change? > > Presumably there will be some people who k

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 11:05:12 An Nguyen wrote: > > Akonadi is using MySQL. You can disable Akonadi (personally I found it > > useless). > > > > $ nano .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc > > StartServer=false > > Bear in mind that all thin

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 27 Mar 2013 11:05:12 An Nguyen wrote: > Akonadi is using MySQL. You can disable Akonadi (personally I found it > useless). > > $ nano .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc > StartServer=false Bear in mind that all things PIM rely on Akonadi; specifically, most of Kontact. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-26 Thread An Nguyen
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > With the move to mariadb I have the following situation: > > I am not explicitely running mysqld so checking the status with systemctl > shows it is inactive. > > However I am running KDE as my desktop. > > After doing the suggested install af

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-26 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > I also use KDE. I went ahead with the switch. I stopped akonadi first, > though: > > # akonadictl stop > > # akonadictl start > > And all seemed to go well. I haven't done anything special for KDE when > upgrading mysql before, so I

Re: [arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-26 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 26 Mar 2013 13:50:13 Mike Cloaked wrote: > So does any expert know whether a mysql_upgrade is necessary for KDE and if > so how does one go about doing that upgrade? I also use KDE. I went ahead with the switch. I stopped akonadi first, though: # akonadictl stop # akonadictl start

[arch-general] Question about mariadb replacing mysql

2013-03-26 Thread Mike Cloaked
With the move to mariadb I have the following situation: I am not explicitely running mysqld so checking the status with systemctl shows it is inactive. However I am running KDE as my desktop. After doing the suggested install after ensuring that mysqld is stopped: pacman -S mariadb libmariadbcl