Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>...
> I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody
> point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to
> coordinate with him and get something uploaded soon if you want to try for
> this option.
AFAIR, upgrades from Debian 3.0r0 to Debian 3.1 are supported.
If this is not true, Debian 3.1 CDs will have to include a CD that
upgrade Debian 3.0r0 to Debian 3.0r7 or you will leave your users
without an upgrade path.
> 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace a
> package-provided directory with a symlink in this manner, so having a corner
> case of "partially upgraded woody system and installing mysql-server-4.1 and
> messed with a package directory" is not the end of the world...
It's a quite common usage in database environments.
> Cheers,
> Steve Langasek
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Adrian
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