FreeBSD Port: databases/p5-DBD-MariaDB

[parv/freebsd]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 5:23 AM Iasen Kostov <iasen.kostov at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Iasen,

Please keep the mailing lists as recipients. I do not want to
engage in unsolicited private conversation.

I basically needed it for 'mytop' from MariaDB, but it turned out mytop
> doesn't even work with p5-DBD-MariaDB.
>

I have not interacted with MariaDB or mytop with either driver. So I cannot
help with usage of DBD::MariaDB.

So I had to install p5-DBD-mysql from ports with mariadb client installed
> beforehand. But then when I do 'pkg upgrade' of course a mess ensues. I
> had to remove the packcage from the database by hand which is ugly solution
> to say the least :)
>

What does actually happen when "mess" happens?

So my actual question is how to make 'mytop' (and other similar things)
> from MariaDB work ?
> One way is to just have "p5-DBD-mysql-mysql" and "p5-DBD-mysql-mariadb" -
> but that looks a 'bit' ugly too.
>

I have no idea what are you referring to with "p5-DBD-mysql-mysql"
& "p5-DBD-mysql-mariadb".

Forcing people to use the ports
>

You are more than free to install Perl software via cpan or cpanm.
Who is forcing you?

and only the ports is not feasible with small systems like RaspberyPI or
> older  / low power systems and will lead to "but in Linux ..." so it is not
> a solution either.
> What would be the best and least ugliest way to make it work ?
>
On 3.4.2021 г. 12:19, parv/freebsd wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 9:58 PM Iasen Kostov wrote:
>
>>    I wonder why does the package depends on mysqlclient and not on
>> mariadb ?
>
>
> Yes, should have switched to depend on MariaDB.
>
> That package seems to be useless because it is the same as
>> databases/p5-DBD-mysql. Am I missing something ?
>>
>
> How much do you care for Unicode support & security bug fixes?
>
> See ...
>
>   https://github.com/gooddata/DBD-MariaDB#readme
>
>