José Parrella wrote:
Paul POULAIN escribió:
Most (all?) distros are provided with mySQL4 as well as mySQL5, so that's not a major problem I think.
Debian 4.0 (codename "Etch", ETA December 2006) doesn't provide MySQL 4.0 or 4.1, just a 5.0 server, and actually it might be released with a 5.1 server. Chances are you won't see MySQL 4.x officially supported in any of the next Debian releases.
I had a hard time trying to setup MySQL 4.1 in an Etch box, and even after I made it, I felt uncomfortable about having MySQL outside my packaging system, so I had to fall back to Debian 3.1 which only provides MySQL 4.1, but also provides less packaged Perl modules; for example some modules under the MARC namespace are packaged in Etch but not in Sarge.
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Jose
FWIIW, you can "pin" versions using /etc/apt/preferences so you could pin MySQL to 4.* with a more advanced Debian system. You can also downgrade a MySQL 5.* installation to 4.*, but that might be tough because of dependencies... it is probably better to install Debian testing/Etch without MySQL, pin MySQL to 4.*, and then install MySQL (which will install 4.x since it is pinned). This is theoretical, I have not done this specifically with MySQL. YMMV. gvb