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

2013-03-27 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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 know

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 pdgid...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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 simply

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

[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

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 install mariadb #

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 pdgid...@gmail.comwrote: I also use KDE. I went ahead with the switch. I stopped akonadi first, though: # akonadictl stop install mariadb # akonadictl start And all seemed to go well. I haven't done anything special for KDE when

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 mike.cloa...@gmail.com 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