mysql55 no longer ships with startup script for MacPorts

Brad Allison brad.allison at gmail.com
Wed May 30 08:53:41 PDT 2012


port install mysql55 +server installs just the server (but without the
startup scripts).
port install mysql55-server installs just the server.

So I don't see why there are both?

Neither one installed the client for me and there's no mysql55-client
package. :(

-b

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <
jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

> > mysql55 +server is a variant
> > that means, that you install both the client and the server in one
> > command with /port install mysql55 +server/
> >
> > mysql55-server is a subport of mysql55
> > that means that you in fact install 2 ports:
> >       mysql55
> >       mysql55-server
> > You can just install /port install mysql55-server/ and mysql55 will also
> > be installed because mysql55 is defined as a runtime dependency of
> > mysql55-server
>
> Semantics: the way the portfile is written, mysql55 and mysql55-server are
> more like a giant if/else as to what's installed; mysql55-server depends on
> mysql55 which then gets you both the client and server.
>
>
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