Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:08:34PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > On 2005-05-19 Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Thus BDB support could now complete been removed as luckily support for > > > BDB was not present on most architectures, disabled by default and > > > being warned at startup for a while n

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:01:58AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >... > > I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody > > point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to > > coordinate

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:08:28PM +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace > > > a > > > packa

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >... > I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody > point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to > coordinate with him and get something uploaded soon if you want to try for > this

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:33:01PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:00:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > Other issues like #308762 are also still possible on direct > > mysql-server/woody -> mysql-server-4.1/sarge upgrade paths - and > > there will be users doing such up

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-21 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Steve On 2005-05-19 Steve Langasek wrote: > > Thus BDB support could now complete been removed as luckily support for > > BDB was not present on most architectures, disabled by default and > > being warned at startup for a while now and will most likely be removed in > > 5.0 upstream anyway.

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-20 Thread sean finney
hey, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody > point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to > coordinate with him and get something uploaded soon if you want to try for > thi

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-20 Thread sean finney
hey, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace > > > a > > > package-provided directory with a symlink in this manner > > > If you consider this an user error, then what is the officially blesse

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:16:55AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > On 2005-05-18 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Quoting sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, > > > as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [1st RC issue - dpkg removes symlinks when upgrading from 3.23] As discussed before in some corner cases we can do nothing except for showing the user an explanation what happened which has been done in 4.1.11a-2 and 4.0.24-10. [2nd RC issue - statically linked db3] > The new bug #30896

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread GOMBAS Gabor
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace a > package-provided directory with a symlink in this manner If you consider this an user error, then what is the officially blessed way of relocating a pack

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:08:28PM +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace a > > package-provided directory with a symlink in this manner > If you consider this an us

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2005-05-19 Steve Langasek wrote: ... > > so we've come up with three options, none of which are great: > > > 1 the most recenty woody security update caused problems for some > > people, and there's a package already waiting to go in to fix this > > problem. we could put a fix into

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Sean, On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:23:35AM -0400, sean finney wrote: > the following upgrade paths work: > mysql-server/woody -> mysql-server/sarge > mysql-server/woody -> mysql-server/sarge -> mysql-server-4.1/sarge > but this does not: > mysql-server/woody -> mysql-server-4.1/sarge > so at

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > [1st issue - dpkg symlink bug workaround] > > On 2005-05-18 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>Quoting sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>>so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, >>>as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [1st issue - dpkg symlink bug workaround] On 2005-05-18 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, > > as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1 will even run > > before my

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:23:35AM -0400, sean finney wrote: >... > the following upgrade paths work: > > mysql-server/woody -> mysql-server/sarge > mysql-server/woody -> mysql-server/sarge -> mysql-server-4.1/sarge > > but this does not: > > mysql-server/woody -> mysql-server-4.1/sarge > > so

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:00:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 4 drop mysql-dfsg-4.1 from unstable/sarge not exactly an attractive option, but i guess everything is on the table at this point so it's worth bringing up... the reverse dependencies aren't nearly as severe as i had assumed, actually,

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1 will even run before mysql-server/woody is removed. the only fix we can think of is to remove the two directories from the files

RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
(please excuse the cross-posting, i felt it was necessary to get all affected parties' input) hi, for some time now, christian and i have been trying to build in a workaround for a rather tricky bug in the mysql-server and mysql-server-4.1 packages, and we'd like to field some comments on what o