Recommended upgrade order

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Oct 8, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Bill Christensen <billc_lists at greenbuilder.com> wrote:
> 
> Just got a successful install of MySQL 5.7.  
> 
> A couple of notes:  Instead of entering 
> 
>      sudo -u _mysql mysql_install_db
> 
> as was the instruction for MySQL 5.6 and earlier  (https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MySQL), the instruction sequence is now:
> 
>      sudo /opt/local/lib/mysql57/bin/mysqld --initialize --user=_mysql
> 
> which creates the db and assigns a default root password (used to be set to blank), followed by 
> 
>    sudo port select mysql mysql57
> 
> then
> 
>     /opt/local/lib/mysql57/bin/mysql_secure_installation
> 
> 
> 
> It might also be helpful to include that when you run
> 
>      ps -ax | grep mysql
> 
> you should expect to see something along the lines of:
> 
> 
> 
>       /opt/local/bin/daemondo --label=mysql57-server --start-cmd /opt/local/lib/mysql57/bin/mysqld --user=_mysql ; --pid=exec
> 
>      /opt/local/lib/mysql57/bin/mysqld --user=_mysql
> 
> 
>      grep mysql
> 
> if it's running.  If the only response is 
> 
>    grep mysql
> 
> then MySQL hasn't started.  

If you have improvements to make to the instructions in the wiki, please do so.