[mythtv] mysql 5 bug affecting mythtv

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 22:09:37 UTC 2008


On Jan 30, 2008 1:26 PM, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> Gentoo has some 'quirks' with respect to building mysql. In particular,
> if you have the 'debug' USE flag set it will generate a completely
> unusable mysql build; and the last time I checked it was configured
> by default to fill your /var partition with multi-terabyte mysql db
> replication logs. I recommend you build both mysql and mythtv without
> ebuilds. Both these packages have ebuilds which encourage you to
> shoot yourself in the foot.

I run the Gentoo ebuild version of mysql (from 3.3 to 5.1 current)
just fine without the debug use flag. What issues were you finding
with it?

As for the mysql binary logs, that's done because mysql recommends and
defaults to having binlogs enabled. I personally think not having
binlogs is encouraging a foot shooting.


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