Tuesday, July 28. 2009
Semi-official backports of the Debian MySQL packages
MySQL 5.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable, and until we get it into testing, I am providing semi-official up-to-date backports of MySQL 5.1.36 and 5.0.84 for i386 and amd64 in my home directory on people.debian.org. I am providing MySQL 5.0.84 for Debian 4.0 and 5.0, and MySQL 5.1.36 for Debian 5.0. If you need MySQL 5.1.36 for Debian 4.0 as well, please let me know.
Beware that the MySQL 5.1 packages do not include MySQL Cluster support, it was dropped from MySQL 5.1 a while ago, and is now available as a separate product. Unfortunately MySQL Cluster is not yet available in Debian, packaging it is one of the big items on my TODO list.
MySQL 5.0.84 for Debian 4.0:
deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/mysql-dfsg-5.0/ etch-backports maindeb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/mysql-dfsg-5.0/ lenny-backports maindeb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/mysql-dfsg-5.1/ lenny-backports mainBeware that the MySQL 5.1 packages do not include MySQL Cluster support, it was dropped from MySQL 5.1 a while ago, and is now available as a separate product. Unfortunately MySQL Cluster is not yet available in Debian, packaging it is one of the big items on my TODO list.
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I'd say that if you rely on cluster support you should be using 5.1. NDB engine has progressed to version 7.0 and that is the current recommended version. It is miles ahead of 5.0. Cluster was removed from 5.1 so that the NDB engine could continue to progress as 5.1 stabilized. MySQL Cluster is essentially a separate product now which includes a 5.1.xx version.
Debian users dependent upon cluster should use the Linux tarball downloads http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/7.0.html#Linux_(non_RPM_packages)
As you suggested in April '08 there really should be a new package like "mysql-cluster-7.0" which obsolesces the default "mysql-server-5.1" package.
Debian users dependent upon cluster should use the Linux tarball downloads http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/7.0.html#Linux_(non_RPM_packages)
As you suggested in April '08 there really should be a new package like "mysql-cluster-7.0" which obsolesces the default "mysql-server-5.1" package.
Matthew, of course you're totally right, I corrected the last paragraph.
You could also check: http://www.dotdeb.org/
dotdeb has a very different strategy from debian, in that is always providing -the newest- packages for PHP and MySQL. It has a fairly big userbase of companies using it.
dotdeb has a very different strategy from debian, in that is always providing -the newest- packages for PHP and MySQL. It has a fairly big userbase of companies using it.
I am aware of dotdeb.org, but I never took a closer look at the quality of their packages. The above packages have a big advantage compared with dotdeb.org: They are fully supported by the official Debian MySQL maintainers.
we (a big web-hosting company in the uk) had big memory issues with the dotdeb php packages in the past, which could be fixed by downgrading to the php packages from lenny. to be honest, i'm not sure if it's a general problem in the newer versions of php, or a problem in the dotdeb packages. but our php developers now hate us admins for not giving them the latest bleeding edge version of php. i wish there were some kind of "semi-official" php backports, like the ones here provided for mysql.
Looking forward to see MySQL cluster 7 in debian :)
all best
aNeutrino :)
all best
aNeutrino :)
grml. I am still stuck with etch but could use the new mysql. Any chance you could still provide a package for etch? Thx!
What do you recommend?, Use your semi-official backports or
apt-pinning to install the unstable version of the
official sources
apt-pinning to install the unstable version of the
official sources
As I answered you on Twitter already, I recommend using the mentioned backports. If you use APT pinning to install the package from unstable on your stable box, you will need to install a lot of additional packages from unstable as well, e.g. libc6 and libncurses.
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