[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] HaskellWiki Upgrade Aborted

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 19:02 -0800, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> I have given up attempting to upgrade HaskellWiki, and resumed the 
> site's previous normal operation.
> 
> I wrote:
> > I will also need up upgrade both PHP and MySQL.
> 
> It turns out it would be hard to upgrade MySQL, as various things depend 
> on the old version:

For example the gtk2hs website is using mysql and php too. I think we'd
need to upgrade that to have it work with mysql-5. Perhaps gtk2hs should
move to projects.haskell.org.

> $ sudo rpm -U MySQL-server-community-5.1.30-0.rhel3.i386.rpm
> warning: MySQL-server-community-5.1.30-0.rhel3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA 
> signature: NOKEY, key ID 5072e1f5
> error: Failed dependencies:
> 	libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by (installed) mod_auth_mysql-20030510-2.ent
> 	libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by (installed) perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-4.EL3
> 	libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by (installed) php-mysql-4.3.2-48.ent
> 
> I don't know what mod_auth_mysql and perl-DBD-MySQL are being used for, 
> so I don't believe I can upgrade them safely.
> 
> The machine is running RHEL AS 3 update 9 with Linux 2.4.21.

We really need to upgrade the whole thing. Not an easy job given the
range of stuff being run on there by lots of different people.

Duncan