Ubuntu always ship fucked up, broken, shitty MySQL versions.
Look at the one that is current HEAD on 10.04 LTS. It's got so much broken stuff in it, we had to move everything to a spare windows machine where we could stick a later version on without screwing up the machine (DBs for: team city, jira, crucible).
Why migrate to a completely different environment? I'd recommend just installing some version of percona server (mySQL flavour) instead. You get both better software and upstream version instead of a repackaged one.
It is but they've fixed it in MySQL and Ubuntu have pinned the HEAD mysql build to the broken one and have pretty much stopped supporting it. LTS my arse.
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Doesn't surprise me.
Ubuntu always ship fucked up, broken, shitty MySQL versions.
Look at the one that is current HEAD on 10.04 LTS. It's got so much broken stuff in it, we had to move everything to a spare windows machine where we could stick a later version on without screwing up the machine (DBs for: team city, jira, crucible).
Why migrate to a completely different environment? I'd recommend just installing some version of percona server (mySQL flavour) instead. You get both better software and upstream version instead of a repackaged one.
It was what was there as a piece of duct tape for the minute.
I'm in the process of binning it all and moving to Debian which is actually trustworthy...
except that they try to optimize randomness in security libraries every now and then.
Any more details? Not had any problems on that side of things yet.
http://digitaloffense.net/tools/debian-openssl/
Thanks for this - interesting read :)
Also http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00528.html (but that's just some internal governance tool)
Thanks for link :)
It's squarely a MySQL bug, you can't put any blame on Ubuntu here.
It is but they've fixed it in MySQL and Ubuntu have pinned the HEAD mysql build to the broken one and have pretty much stopped supporting it. LTS my arse.
Why would you screw up the machine if you just installed the latest deb?
libmysqlclient dependencies.