[WBEL-users] MySQL 4.0

[Karanbir Singh]

I stand corrected,  I do mean --force ( its been a long day, and its not
over yet!)

Like I said in my previous email, you should remove MySQL 3.23 before
you install 4.0, so that you dont have to force a  4 install. If you
have live data on the database, you would need to follow an upgrade
path. ( convert all table types to MyISAM, move security tables across
........ )

Backups before the move are not a bad idea either.

William Hooper wrote:

>Karanbir Singh said:
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>>You need to get rid of any previous install of MySQL or run rpm with
>>the  -f switch to overwrite the previously installed files.
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>Just for the record, rpm's install mode doesn't have a "-f" switch.  I
>assume you are talking about "--force", which should be avoided at all
>costs.  Using "--force" generally means you are trying to fight the RPM
>database instead of doing it right.
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