Lars Heill wrote: > Ritu Kamboj wrote, On 10/23/07 01:03: > >>>> >>> You say that multiple versions of mysql can exist on the system at >>> the same >>> time, and the versioning in /usr/mysql supports that. But you don't >>> have >>> any versioning in /etc/mysql or /var/mysql. Are multiple versions >>> expected >>> to share those directories? >>> >>> Also, would it make sense to put links to some of the executables >>> (maybe >>> just mysql?) in /usr/bin? >> >> >> We shall be having version directory under both /var and /etc >> directory (ie /var/mysql/5.0/data and /etc/mysql/5.0. We shall be >> having a symbolic link from /usr/mysql/5.0 to /usr/mysql. We can >> possible link just the client mysql to /usr/bin as well. Shall update >> the ARC case to reflect the same. > > > What will be the stability of these soft links? I.e, will a later > install > (of an older or a newer version) replace them or preserve them?
/usr/local/mysql will be linked to the lastest version ...so going forward when we have higher version this link will be upgraded to the higher version. > > -- Lars > >
