Hi, I've been using the mysql overlay. It has an ebuild for 5.6.12. Current GA community is 5.6.13. It works with some adjustments, that is, it compiles. emerge --config fails to create the db tables 5.6.* has innodb with fulltext search. mariadb doesn't have anything equivalent. I tried to create one on my own, but the ebuild system is so intransparent when it comes to mysql. And I don't get why it downloads some extras from github. And there is no SLOT defined. The basic stuff is kindof easy... - create build dir - change into it - cmake -D<options> .. - make <MAKEOPTS> (I guess) - make install Is the build dir the working dir in ebuilds or would I have to create a build subdir in W? The CFLAGS,CXXFLAGS are they available in the ebuild? What should the values for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH MYSQL_DATADIR:PATH (/var/lib/mysql ?) Where is the documentation for "import mysql-v2"? nm, I found it. How do I know which files to package? Do I need to import anything when it's a cmake build? How do I pass configure options to a cmake build if I had to "import cmake" or w/e? How do I You see it would probably be more efficient if someone familiar with the mysql ebuilds would work on it. The time it would take for me to become familiar with whatever already existing mysql eclasses is too much and then it probably won't make it into core and even if it did, I wouldn't want to maintain it because it simply isn't my product. my.cnf needs changes. I've attached a working one (working as in --configure doesn't complain that the server isn't able to start). Slightly modified. Mariadb isn't an alternative currently. Innodb Full Text Search is a key feature of mysql 5.6. It won't be in Mariadb 10.0 according to https://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/ Sphinx is only a temporary supplement. There needs to be working Mysql 5.6.13 ebuild.
Created attachment 356608 [details] my.cnf or not, now I did
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