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Re: Back to mysql


On 12/14/2010 04:21 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
Cygwin Ports, at http://sourceware.org/cygwinports. A quite amazing repository of additional Cygwin packages, all maintained by Yaakov.

Thanks to recent improvements to Cygwin's setup.exe by Jon Turney, the timestamp hack shown on the Ports website is no longer needed, i.e. the steps required now are:

1. Download the latest Cygwin setup.exe from http://cygwin.com.

2. Launch setup.exe with the -X flag (for allowing unsigned repositories). A convenient way to do this is to create a setup.exe shortcut and add the -X to its target.

3. Add and select ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports or one of its mirrors (http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html) in the mirror list. (Official mirrors and Ports ones can be selected at the same time; just hold Ctrl while doing so. Unfortunately there's currently no way to tell apart different repositories on the same mirror, but Jon is working on that as well.)

4. Select the packages of your choice and install.

Ports issues should be discussed on the cygwin-ports-general mailing list.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm working on a Perl script to gather information about systems and store it in a MySQL database. As such I can't always be sure that Cygwin (thus Perl and even DBI, DBD and MySQL) will be there. Installing DBI and DBD is pretty simply with cpan and to me Cygwin's a no brainer. But having to install a port of the mysql-client stuff seems like hacking a bit to far. Any particular reason why mysql-client is not an official (perhaps optionally installed) part of Cygwin by now?

I remember working with this a while back (years back actually) and there was a separate mysql package that somebody put together (probably from cygports). I just would have thought that by now it would have been put into Cygwin in a more official manner.

Any thoughts about how to do this without Cygwin (I know, not Cygwin related then and I'd probably need to get some sort of Perl - can you say ActiveState! Yuck - and install some Windows based mysql libs or something like that... Yuck. Cygwin's just so much nicer. Wish mysql was simply YA Cygwin package).
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