tags 354850 confirmed upstream tags 354544 confirmed upstream forwarded 354850 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23550 forwarded 354544 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23550 thanks
hey olaf, On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 11:47 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > A proper solution would probably be to ship a small conversion tool that > converts from ISAM to MyISAM in Etch. > > Unfortunately, I'm afraid such a tool doesn't exist. i did some googling and unfortunately agree :( but... i've reported a feature request to mysql about it: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23550 and have another idea for how we could work around the problem in the meantime: - debootstrap a sarge chroot, and set it up for general use (/proc, etc) - turn off the mysql server - copy the old-format database into the chroot dir - chroot into the chroot dir - install the old version of mysql server - turn it off if it turns itself on at installation - copy the database files into /var/lib/mysql in the chroot dir - turn it on - convert them - turn it off - log out of the chroot dir - move the old-format db's out of the "real" /var/lib/mysql - copy the newly converted db's from the chroot dir to the "real" - run mysql_upgrade if you know anyone willing to volunteer some time to test this, i'd be happy to hear it. if so, i can throw it into README.Debian and see about getting it into etch. sean
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