mysql55 no longer ships with startup script for MacPorts

Bjarne D Mathiesen macintosh at mathiesen.info
Wed May 30 09:21:24 PDT 2012


Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On May 30, 2012, at 11:08, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> 
>> after installing mysql55 you'll have to select a version to symlink into
>> ${prefix}/bin as below :
> 
> You don't *have* to. You *can*, if you want to be able to type "mysql" and have it do something. (Otherwise, you have to type the full path to mysql55.)
> 

I _do_ know that ;-)
But I do think that is one of the things that trips him up, as I suppose
most newbies would expect a mysql binary to be in ${PATH}. And I did
want to KISS a little ;-)

:-)
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