On a piece of work i have completed.. i had to use mysql 3.23... Ubuntu, derivitive of debian, installs mysql 5 by default. It was an interesting challenge, uninstalling 5, and pinning it, then used mysql 3.23 from a redhat linux distro, using 'alien' to rpm2deb and install with scripts. uninstalled dbd::mysql, which under Ubuntu, was a matter of uninstalling a deb package.... installed via cpan the needed modules, that compled against mysql-devel-3.23. Went well. No problems. Waylon. ----- Original Message ---- From: José Parrella <joseparrella@gmail.com> To: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@smiths-aerospace.com> Cc: koha-devel@nongnu.org Sent: Saturday, 4 November, 2006 1:07:07 PM Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] New Feature: Improved Z39.50 Client Jerry Van Baren escribió:

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).

Sure. However the dependencies on libmysqlclient varies, and DBD::MySQL and other already-packaged modules which depend on libmysqlclient might need to be purged and compiled using dh-make-perl or any other helper, or just installed manually. I planned to recompile Sarge's source package under Etch; I guess that's the nicest way. Of course it's possible to have Koha in Etch (I had it, just decided to fallback to Sarge) it's just quite more complicate to achieve, a little bit unmanageable and currently highly complex to do by means of an official Debian package. Jose -- José M. Parrella -> Debian Sid, k2.6.17.13 Escuela de Ingenieria Electrica Universidad Central de Venezuela -> ucvlug.info _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com