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Re: Testing mysql-5.5 on squeeze



Hi Raphaël,

El 30/10/15 a las 17:11, Raphael Hertzog escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been testing the mysql-5.5 package prepared by Santiago in his
> repository:
> 
>   deb https://people.debian.org/~santiago/debian santiago-squeeze-lts/
>   deb-src https://people.debian.org/~santiago/debian santiago-squeeze-lts/
> 

Thanks for checking and moving forward on this.

> Here are the first problems I discovered:
> 
>  * phpmyadmin would not install choking on a SQL error in
>    /usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/phpmyadmin/install/mysql
>    we need to replace "timestamp(14)" with "timestamp".
> 
>  * installing a package depending on mysql-server or mysql-client
>    will drop mysql 5.5 and reinstall 5.1... so I believe that we need
>    to update those binary packages too. But we should changer their
>    dependencies to "mysql-server-5.1 | mysql-server-5.5" and
>    "mysql-client-5.1 | mysql-client-5.5" respectively so that they
>    still install the default mysql version but so that they can be kept
>    when the admin switches to 5.5.
> 


I'm uploading a new package, including a new upstream version and the
changes you propose.

> And this gives more ideas of things to verify: test install all packages
> depending on dbconfig-common and offering mysql support.
> 
> I have put all this in a pad so that we can easily update it:
> https://titanpad.com/cRc6eiCH5t
> 
> Strike packages that you did test with mysql 5.5, possibly both for an upgrade
> (install foo, upgrade mysql to 5.5, test) and a fresh installation (upgrade
> mysql to 5.5, install foo, test).

I've also started to check these packages.

Cheers!

Santiago

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