On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:41:23PM -0400, Bob wrote: > First the port allocates the location for the databases to /var/db/mysql. > This location has no space allocated to hold database data. > It should be changed to /usr/local/mysql
You're complaining about the default location of mysql_dbdir, which is somewhat understandable. /var/db/mysql is a good place for it. Ideally, the /var filesystem should be increased when choosing [A]utomatic during filesystem creation (I believe it picks 2GB or something like that), but that's not the responsibility of -ports. The size of each filesystem is up to you to decide; sticking everything blindly into /usr or subtrees of /usr (e.g. /usr/local) simply because FreeBSD defaults to "all remaining space --> /usr" doesn't justify laziness during initial filesystem creation time. Yes, I realise some other ports do this (Apache for example, although it's quite justified for Apache), and they probably shouldn't. Deciding if ports should install themselves into LOCALBASE/portname or not is quite political, I think... Anyways, what you can do is install MySQL normally, which of course drops the MySQL database structure into /var/db/mysql. Once there, you can move that directory to someplace of your choice (/usr/local/mysql or /home/mysql or whatever you want), then modify rc.conf to say mysql_dbdir="/wherever/mysql". pkg_delete/deinstalling the mysql-server port won't nuke contents of that directory, and future installations (as long as the existing mysql/* tables exist in mysql_dbdir) will skip installing out-of-the-box MySQL databases/tables. > Next the mysql manual should be included in the port just like the apache > manual is. I second this. I've often the need to review MySQL server configuration changes on a system without (at the time) network access. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
