mysql55 no longer ships with startup script for MacPorts

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Wed May 30 08:48:18 PDT 2012


> mysql55 +server is a variant
> that means, that you install both the client and the server in one
> command with /port install mysql55 +server/
> 
> mysql55-server is a subport of mysql55
> that means that you in fact install 2 ports:
> 	mysql55
> 	mysql55-server
> You can just install /port install mysql55-server/ and mysql55 will also
> be installed because mysql55 is defined as a runtime dependency of
> mysql55-server

Semantics: the way the portfile is written, mysql55 and mysql55-server are more like a giant if/else as to what's installed; mysql55-server depends on mysql55 which then gets you both the client and server.

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