On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 18:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > > Searching the archives , I noticed that there are two options: using the > > packages from development and the packages from mysql.com. So , what is > > the most reccomended solution ? > > I'm more tempted to use the packages from devel, since it's a package > > made for FC (even being unstable). > > while its a development tree package, its not really unstable. you > can try that to see if it works. thus you can easily upgrade to fc4 or > whatever but if thats not your goal, then using the packages from > mysql.com is good enough > > -- > Regards, > Rahul Sundaram > I've been running the devel packages (re-compiled from srpms) on FC3 for some time. 4.1.7 and more recently 4.1.9. 100% stable on a near production load (UAT) with very heavy access on InnoDB. The 4.1.* packages install a default my.cnf with 'old_passwords=1'. Python and other stuff linked against the GPL'd V3 libs are working just fine with the 3.23 client compatibility package. Regards Clive -- Clive Messer <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
