[mythtv-users] mysql (or mariadb) version for 0.27 under Gentoo

[John Drescher]

> I'm planning on installing 0.27 under gentoo, and am trying to decide
> what to do about mysql. The current stable version of mysql in gentoo
> is 5.1.70, which seems pretty decrepit 8-/. The newest version in
> portage is 5.5.32. It looks like the latest stable upstream is actually
> 5.6.15. I'd actually rather go with mariadb than mysql, based on mailing
> list archives it seems the developers' stance is they're willing to
> support mariadb unless it diverges too much from mysql (hopefully one
> day they'll actually switch to officially supporting mariadb and make
> mysql the "as-possible" variant ;), boo oracle). There is no stable
> version of mariadb in gentoo :(, with the latest unstable version being
> 5.5.32, and the most recent stable upstream 5.5.34.


I moved to mysql-5.5 (under gentoo) a few months back without any issue.

jmd0 weekly # equery l mysql
 * Searching for mysql ...
[IP-] [  ] dev-db/mysql-5.5.32:0

jmd0 weekly # emerge --info
Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.16.0,
3.12.3-gentoo-jmd0-panic x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.12.3-gentoo-jmd0-panic-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_ at _2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     6104104 total,    747688 free
KiB Swap:   26214396 total,  25779652 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 07:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.2-r2
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.9
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.1-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3, 4.7.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.12 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.16.0
Repositories: gentoo jmd-gentoo-main MythTV-0-26-fixes
Installed sets: @kde-4.11, @kdegames-4.11
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

I am running mythtv-0.26 now.

John