Transition Mysql 5.0 to 5.1 in main

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi Mathias,

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:52:38 +0100
Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Stephan Hermann<sh at sourcecode.de>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:14:06 +0100
> > Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > As already mentioned on IRC, mysql 5.1 doesn't provide mysql cluster
> > anymore. The lack of mysql-cluster packages in debian (as promised
> > to Norbert T. -> debian mysql maintainer, I'll work with him on that
> > issue) could be a nogo for mysql 5.1 as default mysql server
> > replacement.
> >
> > People who are using mysql cluster from 5.0 will have problems
> > after an upgrade to karmic or even to the next LTS...
> >
> 
> The current workaround is to check if the cluster engine is used in
> the preinst script. If so the upgrade fails with a message suggesting
> to remove the mysql-server package (which is an empty package
> depending on mysql-server-5.0 for now - it will depend on
> mysql-server-5.1 once mysql is move to main). Mysql-server-5.0 will be
> demoted to universe (in karmic) and we'll try to get rid of it in the
> next release (one blocker being the availability of mysql-cluster).

Sounds reasonable...how do we check the usage of the mysql cluster
engine?

As there are at least three types of cluster nodes (management (which
are not running a mysql instance), the sql nodes and the storage
nodes), especially the first one is using a totally different
configuration (not my.cnf)

Just asking, because I didn't find the time until now to deal with 5.1
packages..(hopefully I'm coming to that in September)

Regards,

\sh

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