Re: Back to mysql

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

On 14 December 2010 03:37, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> You can get mysql, libmysql*, perl-DBI, and perl-DBD-mysql from Ports.
>
> Never been to "Ports". Can you elaborate?

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.

Andy

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