Reverting to previous ports - mysql5

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Jun 10 22:17:06 PDT 2009


On Jun 9, 2009, at 08:17, Chris Janton wrote:

> On 2009-06-08 , at 11:27 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>> I copied/pasted the MYSQL5-SERVER line from the terminal.
>>> This is copied/pasted from /etc/hostconfig
>>>
>>> MYSQL5-SERVER=-YES-
>>>
>>> For the time being I have manually started mysql on the 10.3  
>>> system and will hand start if we have to reboot.
>>
>> I am guessing it is using the port name as the key for the  
>> hostconfig file, and that the hostconfig file does not support  
>> hyphens in its variable names. So that would be a problem. Perhaps  
>> I can tell it to continue to use the key  
>> "mysql5" ("startupitem.name mysql5"?) You can try adding that to  
>> the mysql5-server port already if you want, but I will also test  
>> when I'm back at my Panther machine tonight.
>
> That certainly did the trick - to think a "-" in a name should be  
> such a problem...

I committed this change in r52144. I didn't test on Panther yet so  
please let me know if that works now.




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