Re: KDEPIM 17.08: The whole thing works

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hello Sandro.

Martin Steigerwald - 17.11.17, 14:04:
> > 3. akonadictl start
> > 
> > But I had issues with the database upgrade. Because it needs to create a
> > temporary table, that was too big for my tmp filesystem
> > The error is:
> > Got error 64 'Temp file write failure' from InnoDB
[…]
> > I solved this with setting the tempdir in
> > ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf
> > [mysqld]
> > tmpdir = /usefullpath
> 
> Maybe it would be good to implement to safeguard this in upstream code base
> somehow. I.e. check free space beforehand and notify the user if there is
> not enough.
[…]
> IMHO thats another disadvantage of using MySQL/MariaDB by default. Much
> temporary space needed for… things like this.

First I told Frank to drop the topic, and then, as I sense a Debian KDE user 
who also works as Debian Qt/KDE team packager and as an upstream developer, I 
bring it up myself.

Sandro, feel free to just ignore my nitpicking.

Thank you,
-- 
Martin