From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 23:02:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B58216A41F; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140DF13C45E; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 058CD1CC044; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:02:41 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Bob Message-ID: <20070618230241.GA18844@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bob , ale@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, ale@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mysql-server-3.23.59.n.20050301_3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:02:42 -0000 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 |