MySQL 5.0.67 not uploaded to Debian
Last weekend I updated the Debian package of MySQL to 5.0.67, the latest Community Edition release. It was not uploaded into the Debian archive, but is available from my home directory on gluck (amd64...
View ArticleInit Script for MySQL Proxy in Debian
This morning I finally found some time to add an init script to the Debian package of mysql-proxy (0.6.1-3 which includes it was just uploaded to unstable, I will try to get a freeze exception for...
View ArticleMySQL Customer Conference 2008
Yesterday I visited the MySQL Customer Conference in Munich, as I did last year. The agenda was quite similar to last year's agenda, but I was really surprised how much Sun hardware and software...
View ArticleDropping MySQL Cluster support from Debian (for a while)
In the next upload of MySQL 5.1.30 to the experimental branch of Debian we are going to drop MySQL Cluster support from the standard MySQL packages. I already wrote something about the future of MySQL...
View ArticleMySQL 5.0.75 uploaded to Debian
This week MySQL released version 5.0.75 of their Community Edition. The package in testing is in good shape, so I had time to prepare and upload 5.0.75-1 to unstable, but it should work on testing as...
View ArticleOurDelta
The MySQL packages in Debian still do not (and will never) include inofficial feature patches (beside the redirect output of error.log to syslog in MySQL 5.0, which is now part of the official MySQL...
View ArticleMySQL Workbench for Debian
Based on the official Ubuntu 8.04 package from Sun (thanks to Alfredo Kojima) I prepared a package of MySQL Workbench 5.1.7 for Debian. I am going to upload it to experimental soon, in the meanwhile...
View ArticleHelp with Debian MySQL packages required
During the last few months I was the only person working on the MySQL packages in Debian, and I could really need some help. Currently there is MySQL 5.0.32 in etch, 5.0.51a in lenny, 5.0.75 in...
View ArticleMySQL 5.1 moved to Debian unstable
Thanks to Christian Hammers, we finally have MySQL 5.1 in Debian unstable, which completely replaces MySQL 5.0. Please update all build-dependencies from libmysqlclient15-dev to libmysqlclient-dev and...
View ArticleSemi-official backports of the Debian MySQL packages
MySQL 5.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable, and until we get it into testing, I am providing semi-official up-to-date backports of MySQL 5.1.36 and 5.0.84 for i386 and amd64 in my home directory on...
View ArticleMySQL currently not available in Debian testing
Due to a bug in britney, the Debian testing migration tool, MySQL is currently not available in testing. The issue is known and being worked on already, and it is documented in the Debian bug tracking...
View ArticleMySQL distro meeting in Brussels
Last month I spent two days in Belgium, after I got invited to the MySQL distro meeting. It was a non-public meeting with some people from Sun Microsystems and MySQL maintainers from different Linux...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 and Debian
Since MySQL 5.5 was declared stable in December last year, I regulary receive e-mails from people asking when it will get uploaded to Debian. The good thing is that the initial conversion from...
View ArticleMySQL source tree available in Debian as binary package
MySQL supports a plugin interface since 5.1, which enables creation of server components. Plugins can be loaded at server startup, or loaded and unloaded at runtime without restarting the server. Most...
View ArticleVote on Planet MySQL for Serendipity
Since I found no Serendipity plugin for the vote feature on Planet MySQL, I took Diego Medina's JavaScript code and added it to the Serendipity default template. Here is the patch against Serendipity...
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