mysql5 +server install

[Michael Brian Bentley]

At 9:25 PM -0600 11/14/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>On Nov 14, 2008, at 13:22, Michael Brian Bentley wrote:
>
>>I just tried to install mysql5, and I tried uninstalling it and 
>>reinstalling it a couple times. It appears to install a zero-length 
>>/opt/local/var/db/mysql5/mysql/user.MYD file, apparently making it 
>>difficult to log into mysql root and access things.
>>
>>Has anyone else run into that problem? We had to copy the 
>>/opt/local/var/db/mysql5/mysql folder contents from another machine 
>>to be able to log in properly.
>
>The mysql5 port itself should install no MYD files.
>
>Are you saying an empty user.MYD file appeared when you tried to 
>install the initial databases with mysql_install_db5? Or what was 
>the exact sequence of commands you entered to get to this situation?

Ok, good, that means then there likely was an old copy of that folder 
around from a previous install attempt.

sudo port install mysql5 +server is what we ran. If there was some 
old cruft lying around, that would explain why it was so deucedly 
hard to do anything.

I'm not sure why there was a bad set of files present in the first place.