Installing mysql-4.1.9-1 in FC3

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jan 28 15:22:39 UTC 2005


Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-28-01 at 14:59 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>So you downloaded the development SRPMs for perl-DBD-MySQL, 
>>mod_auth_mysql, php-mysql and dovecot (the packages you had installed 
>>that required the older MySQL libraries) and rebuilt them against the 
>>new MySQL? If you did that, you should have just been able to upgrade 
>>those packages to the ones you built and then you wouldn't have needed 
>>--nodeps to remove the compatibility RPM.
> 
> Actually, I didn't download the SRPMs for those other packages at all.
> What you're saying makes sense, but it didn't even occur to me since I
> assumed I could use just install the rebuilt version of
> mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4 and have everything play together nicely.

If you do that, it should supply the required dependencies, just like 
the MySQL compatibility packages did.

>>If you've removed the compatibility RPM without rebuilding those 
>>dependent packages, then those packages will now be broken in various 
>>ways...
> 
> This should be fun.  If things are indeed busted, I'll find out very
> soon.  In that case, I'll be shortly downloading the other SRPMs and
> hope that any issues are thus resolved.

I think the mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4 package should resolve those issues.

Paul.




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