Re: [cobalt-users] New Packages for kernel and MySQL screwweee

[Josh Kuperman <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 06:21:47PM -0000, Gavin Nelmes-Crocker wrote:
> > The MySQL update would just give an error message about
> > authentication.  I was in the middle of putting back the old MySQL
> > when the whole thing came down, so I lost all the cut and pasted error
> > messages.
> >
> > In any case does any one know why the new pkgmaster MySQL won't
> > install on a RaQ XTR?
> 
> I can only answer for the MySQL package based on the RaQ4 not the XTR but
> the symptoms sound the same - being lazy I didn't follow the instructions
> and installed the new version over the old one - it removed the old one but
> that was it other than a duff rpm.

I removed the old version, after backing up the data and before I
attempted the install. Indeed if I was lazy at least the old version
would have stayed in place. I should have been a little more
sophiticated, and checkout out how to use mysqldump to restore as well
as backup. Where does the existing data go when the old version is
removed anyhow? I am worried that the new kernel for the XTR somehow
hoses everything.


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Josh Kuperman                       
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