How to migrate Amarok mysqle database from 32- to 64-bit

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag 17 Juni 2010 schrieb Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto:
> On 17-06-2010 08:09, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Michael Schuerig found out that Amarok 2 was not able to read its
> > database, after he switched his Debian system from 32 to 64 bit [1].
> > Even just copying the ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/amarok
> > directory into /var/lib/mysql on a system with a 32-bit MySQL server
> > didn't help him to dump the database.
[..]
> > How to migrate the database? I really do think there should be a
> > migration path. Actually I think Amarok should at least put up some
> > warning with some hints on how to migrate the database. Ideally it
> > would offer to do it for the user.
> > 
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2010/06/msg00108.html
> 
> If you follow the Migrating from MySQL Embedded to MySQL Server section
> of the MySQL Server article in the amarok wiki[1] you should have no
> problem migrating the database. The process relies on the use of the
> mysql tools for dumping a database into a file and loading it back.
> You need to do the dump from the original system before switching
> though.
> 
>  [1] - http://amaroklive.com/wiki/MySQL_Server

Thanks. I forwarded your mail to the debian-kde mailing list.

Ciao,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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