Conventions when it comes to cron-like launchd items

[Mark Hattam]

On 9 Mar 2009, at 16:37, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Mar 8, 2009, at 13:58, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> Adam Byrtek wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 19:38, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> So the port munin could be the node only, and munin +server  
>>>> additionally
>>>> installs the server. This would be reasonable as the node gets  
>>>> installed
>>>> more often than the server.
>>>
>>> This was my initial idea, based on the mysql5 port. On the other  
>>> hand
>>> the fact that the server was not there had been very confusing  
>>> when I
>>> installed MySQL from MacPorts for the first time :)
>>
>> MySQL 5 is an interesting case because the server variant only  
>> creates a
>> startupitem. Normally something this inexpensive should not warrant a
>> variant (and causes confusion as you note), but it does cause  
>> installing
>> the port to require root.
>
> The +server variant will be removed from the mysql5 port and the  
> mysql5 port will be split in two: mysql5 (installing all binaries  
> needed to be a mysql client or server) and mysql5-server (installing  
> just the startup item and creating the directories for storing your  
> databases).
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12313
>
> postgresql ports already do this.



So now we will have to do  mysql5-server instead of mysql5+server to  
get a MySQL server that runs at startup?

Mark