Standardizing a MacPorts system

[paul beard]

On Jan 3, 2008 8:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2008, at 22:13, paul beard wrote:
>
> > On Jan 3, 2008 6:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >> I wasn't aware that any ports tied themselves to the build system's
> >> hostname. That would be problematic as well if we started to
> >> distribute binaries of ports. Then again, I'm only familiar with a
> >> small minority of our ports collection.
> >>
> >> With which ports have you observed this problem?
> >
> > Aren't you the maintainer of the mysql port?
>
> Yes I am.
>
> > [/opt/local/var/db/mysql5]# ls
> > .turd_mysql5            ibdata1                 test
> > ib_logfile0             localhost.err
> > white.paulbeard.org.err
> > ib_logfile1             mysql
> >
> > There may well be others but this one came to mind immediately.
>
> MySQL writes logfiles whose names contain the hostname, yes. The
> hostname is not, however, to the best of my knowledge, encoded into
> any files installed by the MySQL ports. There should be no problem
> installing MySQL on one system and running it on another. The two
> systems will merely use separate logfiles by default -- which is in
> fact probably a good thing, isn't it? If it isn't, there's probably a
> way to have MySQL write to a logfile of a name of your choosing.
> Consult the MySQL documentation.
>
> I'm not that interested in a solution to a problem I don't have. But the
inferred question was, do any ports make use of the hostname. it looks like
mysql derives it when it creates the file (I tested it). I'm not sure this
one admittedly thin example answers the OP's question.



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