[webstack-discuss] MySQL package granularity

2008-07-23 Thread Lars Heill
Lars Heill wrote, On 07/23/08 01:18 PM: > (did this myself for Java DB, which in SVR4, RPM > etc form was already split like this, btw, but not picked up by the > automagical translation into IPS (at least back then)) Actually, this was the other way around: multiple packages collapsed into one, b

[webstack-discuss] MySQL package granularity

2008-07-23 Thread Lars Heill
Matt Ingenthron wrote, On 07/23/08 07:46 AM: > Hi Jyri, > > Jyri Virkki wrote: >> I've been playing with phpmyadmin package again a bit and one >> unfortunate detail is that it's not possible to install it without >> installing all of MySQL5 on localhost, even if one wanted to use it >> to admini

[webstack-discuss] MySQL package granularity

2008-07-23 Thread Bob Netherton
> How do other distributions which bundle community server handle this? > I've not looked into this. Maybe someone on one of these lists knows. Fedora does them as smaller packages, presumably for the reasons mentioned. mysql-5.0.51a-1.fc9.i386.rpm mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-5.fc9.i386.rpm m

[webstack-discuss] MySQL package granularity

2008-07-22 Thread Jyri Virkki
Bob Netherton wrote: > > ps: while we're thinking of enhancements, some RBAC stuff like > least privilege in the SMF definitions would be so cool. MySQL already does deliver a 'MySQL Administration' profile (Apache2 has an equivalent one as well); or are you proposing something beyond what's there

[webstack-discuss] MySQL package granularity

2008-07-22 Thread Jyri Virkki
Matt Ingenthron wrote: > > However, having looked into this before (when deciding whether or not to > file an RFE :) ), it doesn't seem to be common in the upstream project > to ever package a "client" separate from the server. There are > "connectors" for things which don't depend upon the C l

[webstack-discuss] MySQL package granularity

2008-07-22 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Hi Jyri, Jyri Virkki wrote: > I've been playing with phpmyadmin package again a bit and one > unfortunate detail is that it's not possible to install it without > installing all of MySQL5 on localhost, even if one wanted to use it > to administer a remote MySQL instance. > > That's because phpMyA

[webstack-discuss] MySQL package granularity

2008-07-22 Thread Jyri Virkki
I've been playing with phpmyadmin package again a bit and one unfortunate detail is that it's not possible to install it without installing all of MySQL5 on localhost, even if one wanted to use it to administer a remote MySQL instance. That's because phpMyAdmin requires PHP (SUNWphp524) and also