At 9:39 -0500 9/10/04, sean c peters wrote:
>I just upgraded Mysql to 4.1.4-0 on linux using the following:
>
>MySQL-server-4.1.4-0.i386.rpm
>MySQL-client-4.1.4-0.i386.rpm
>
>So when i went to upgrade my perl DBI & DBD::mysql packages, it noticed that
>mysql_config was missing. My understanding is that mysql_config should be
>installed with the client libraries.
Yes, but neither of those RPMs you list above contain the client libraries.
The -client- RPM contains the client programs. You want to install
the -devel- RPM to get libraries and mysql_config for programming support.
>
>I looked at the /usr/bin directory before and after installing the client
>libs, and mysql_config is not there. Here is a diff output of
>'ls -l /usr/bin/my *'
>both before and after the client rpm was installed.
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1696220 Aug 28 02:54 mysql
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 111478 Aug 28 02:54 mysqlaccess
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1516376 Aug 28 02:54 mysqladmin
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1550488 Aug 28 02:54 mysqlbinlog
>6a11
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1512908 Aug 28 02:54 mysqlcheck
>10a16,17
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1533448 Aug 28 02:54 mysqldump
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4986 Aug 28 02:54 mysqldumpslow
>11a19
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2653 Aug 28 02:54 mysql_find_rows
>14a23
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1510200 Aug 28 02:54 mysqlimport
>17a27,28
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1510316 Aug 28 02:54 mysqlshow
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13647 Aug 28 02:54 mysql_tableinfo
>19a31
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 680464 Aug 28 02:54 mysql_waitpid
>
>So the client rpm did install a bunch of things, but not the mysql_config
>executable. I'm rather confused by this.
>
>Perhaps i should go back to installing source distros.
>
>Anybody seen anything like this?
>
>thanks much
>sean peters
>speters@stripped
>
>
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