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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 15.01.2010 um 10:22 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Fri Nov 06 15:44:01 -0500 2009:
>>> 
>>>> Do you think it's better to keep the symlink or to remove it? I'm
>>>> inclined to do the latter.
>>> 
>>> I'd keep it.  Somebody, somewhere, has a script that doesn't include
>>> /opt/csw/mysql5/bin in the PATH and relies on finding those symlinks.
>> 
>> I think we are talking about different symlinks.  The symlinks I'm
>> thinking of removing is:
>> 
>> /opt/csw/lib/mysql --> /opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql
> 
> Dago has recently asked me about restoring this symlink.  It's
> certainly technically possible, but let me ask this question:
> 
> 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.


Best regards

  -- Dago