[kde-freebsd] [PATCH] KDE 4.4's Akonadi broken with MySQL 5.1.43 and 5.5.1

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

On Saturday 20 February 2010 14:43:50 Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> Heya list
> 
> After installing KDE 4.4, I ran into the problem that Akonadi would not
> start. With the help of krop on #akonadi, I found the following
> explanation:
> 
> A patch fixing MySQL bug 45058 was committed to MySQL 5.1.43 and 5.5.1
> [1]. This was meant to address a race condition but also broke charset
> handling somehow, making akonadiserver crash.
> 
> Redhat have a patch that reverts this change [2]. Of course, this
> reintroduces the race condition but at least it makes Akonadi work again.
> 
> The Redhat patch is against MySQL 5.1.43. I successfully applied it to
> MySQL 5.5.1 and am happy to report that Akonadi works for me as well now.
> 
> Attached is a patch that you can drop into
> /usr/ports/databases/mysql55-server/files. Then, rebuild
> databases/mysql-client55. The same file should work for MySQL 5.1 as well.
> 
> Once Redhat have confirmed that this works for them (or a better patch
> has been found), this should be pushed into FreeBSD ports. Otherwise,
> anyone upgrading to KDE 4.4 with Akonadi 1.3.1 (and using an up-to-date
> MySQL port) will run into problems with Akonadi not starting.
> 
> - Bartosz
> 
> [1] http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=45058
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566547#c11

By the way, have you contacted the MySQL port maintainer to see if this patch 
can go into the ports tree?