Re: [Koha-devel] New Feature: Improved Z39.50 Client

[Waylon Robertson]

On a piece of work i have completed.. i had to use mysql 3.23... Ubuntu, 
derivitive of debian, installs mysql 5 by default. It was an interesting 
challenge, uninstalling 5, and pinning it, then used mysql 3.23 from a redhat 
linux distro, using 'alien' to rpm2deb and install with scripts. uninstalled 
dbd::mysql, which under Ubuntu, was a matter of uninstalling a deb package.... 
installed via cpan the needed modules, that compled against mysql-devel-3.23.

Went well. No problems.
Waylon.

----- Original Message ----
From: José Parrella <address@hidden>
To: Jerry Van Baren <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, 4 November, 2006 1:07:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] New Feature: Improved Z39.50 Client

Jerry Van Baren escribió:
> FWIIW, you can "pin" versions using /etc/apt/preferences so you could
> pin MySQL to 4.* with a more advanced Debian system.  You can also
> downgrade a MySQL 5.* installation to 4.*, but that might be tough
> because of dependencies... it is probably better to install Debian
> testing/Etch without MySQL, pin MySQL to 4.*, and then install MySQL
> (which will install 4.x since it is pinned).

Sure. However the dependencies on libmysqlclient varies, and DBD::MySQL
and other already-packaged modules which depend on libmysqlclient might
need to be purged and compiled using dh-make-perl or any other helper,
or just installed manually. I planned to recompile Sarge's source
package under Etch; I guess that's the nicest way. Of course it's
possible to have Koha in Etch (I had it, just decided to fallback to
Sarge) it's just quite more complicate to achieve, a little bit
unmanageable and currently highly complex to do by means of an official
Debian package.

Jose

-- 
José M. Parrella -> Debian Sid, k2.6.17.13
Escuela de Ingenieria Electrica
Universidad Central de Venezuela -> ucvlug.info


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