[csw-maintainers] Packages with private /opt/csw/foo directory

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Fri Jan 15 11:16:09 CET 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> This symlink, if I understand correctly, makes it impossible to have
>> multiple MySQL databases installed at the same time, because
>> /opt/csw/lib/mysql is "the MySQL database", which is something people
>> were arguing against (notably, Phil).
>
> No, this is just transitional for packages that have
> /opt/csw/lib/mysql as runpath. It will be discarded when
> all these packages have been redone. Otherwise all these
> packages will remain broken.

Would it be hard to get a list of these packages?  If it's something
like 2 or 3 packages, it might better to update them instead of
dancing with symlinks.



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