[csw-users] can I remove a blastwave package?

[Dennis Clarke]

> I'm guilty. I'm a total newbie. I'm in way over my head. I don't know
> how to admin a SVR4 package in Solaris. Thanks for the tip. I'll read up
> on that.

Let's just get past all that and solve the problem the old fashioned way.
Sorry for being crisp but I never did understand why someone would drop a
pile of logs on a total stranger and then say "fix it". So I had to push
back a little.

That gets us to here.

> I followed the steps on that URL to install the package:
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/samp_setup.jsp

Right. Been there .. done that and got the t-shirt too.

At this point I am going to forward this email into the users mailist at
blastwave.org and get people involved. I am going to do this because the
guys that know MySQL back to front and in their sleep hang out there and I
know that they will see this and possibly attack it with hammers and a fine
tooth comb.  Also, the guys inside Blastwave know that I am up to my ears
fixing a subversion server problem and I can't stop and play right now.

Let's get some other people involved mmmkay ?

Personally I think you are doing fine .. but something has clearly run amok.

pardon me while I drop kick this into the users mailist here :

    users at lists.blastwave.org

Where I will receive it again.

Dennis

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> I installed Solaris 10, set up software raid, configured a static IP,
> followed the steps to get started with Blastwave;
>
> 0 - got patched
> 1 - Installed pkg-get
> 2 - Edited the pkg-get file, digested the md5 sums - The default site is
> now set to url=http://mirror.unixheads.com/csw. The secondary is
> url=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/blastwave/unstable
> 3 - Installed wget
> 4 - copied admin-fullauto to admin
> 5 - set the path and supath
> 6 - configured apache
> 7 - typed the following:
>
> # /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i mysql5 mysql5client mysql5devel mysql5rt
> # /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i mysql5test
>
> 8 - Watched the sparks fly.
>
> I had MySQL 4, the one that comes with Solaris 10 installed, tested and
> working previously, but I removed the links to it in the rcX.d
> directories. I put them there in the first place, so I'm pretty sure I
> didn't break anything by removing them. Then I rebooted before trying to
> start version 5.
>
> I added the group and user just like the sun website said to, then
> initialized the database, again like the sun website said to, then
> started MySQL with the command they gave, saw that MySQL was running,
> pkilled MySQL, then used the svcadm command to make sure it starts on boot.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> I'll skip the pile of logs and just ask the important questions :
>>
>>   1) do you know how to admin SVR4 packages on Solaris ?
>>
>>   2) how did you install this MySQL package ?
>>
>>   Because that package is solid as a rock and if you installed it
>> correctly
>> then you would not have a problem. I can tell by your question "do I just
>> delete the directory?" that you do not know how to admin the system. If
>> you just delete the directory then you will corrupt the package database
>> on the machine.
>>
>> So .. how did you install it ?
>>
>> Dennis