Macports Newbie - XServe use

[grimmwerks]

Alex - please let me know how you find all the macports installation  
on the xserve goes for you; I don't have the experience you do, but  
I've installed the same setups (+ruby) on non-server machines with no  
problem. However, recently trying to get all of this on the xserve  
has proven itself to be problematic for me recently.

I don't know if it's a permissions problem, or something I've done in  
my own misunderstanding, but I don't have a solid setup right now.  
The placement of the mysql.sock being a problem at first, the  
permissions and ability to write to databases being another. As of  
right now, mysql is a bit farked in that I DO have databases created  
and users that can write to these dbs, but the minute that I try to  
run rails to set up an initial database (I'm trying to setup  
retrospectiva as a bugtracker) -- it all blows up.  I've even tried  
to mySQL gui tools to add to the db, and they crash too.

Apache is running (I get the 'It works!' page), but can't quite get  
the mod svn working as yet.

So, if you do get this all up and running smoothly, I'd really  
appreciate it if you can hand down the steps to get this going on an  
Xserve.