Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Sunanda Menon <Sunanda.Menon at sun.com> > wrote: > >> Hi , >> >> I would again like to bring up this MySQL 5.1 Integration ARC Case for >> discussion and please let me know your comments ASAP. >> The Changes that have been proposed to this ARC Case >> http://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/MySQL+51ArcCase are >> >> 1) Coexistence of 5.0 and 5.1 in OpenSolaris . >> >> 2) Introduction of SUNWmysql51lib - a separate package for the client libs . >> > > What goes in this lib package? > > Is it just the libraries? Or includes header files? Or including the mysql > command line client? > > The problem I have with it is that I can't see many situations in which just > the shared libraries are useful. Because I would normally want the whole > client and development environment. I would normally want the headers to > compile against, and the mysql binary for testing. > > This package (SUNWmysql51lib) just has the client libs and the SUNWmysql51u package has the binaries and the mysql command line client.The reason why this was done is to accomodate the RFE 6728729: MySQL should have libraries in separate package.
Here is the description for that RFE "Today in IPS we have SUNWmysql5 which contains everything, so it's a big package. Often we may need only the libraries to access a remote MySQL server, not the entire server on localhost. It'd be great to be able to install only those libraries. This seems to be a fairly common scenario. Examples include: drupal, phpMyAdmin and any other PHP apps which need to access MySQL where the database is more often than not remote (not on localhost). Today SUNWphp524-mysql package depends on SUNWmysql5 so it brings in the entire MySQL install. *** (#1 of 1): 2008-07-23 10:13:16 IST jyri.virkki at sun.com" " -- Sunanda Menon Database Technology Group BLR03, x87098/91-80-66937098 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/attachments/20080813/419cf71c/attachment.html>
