Akonadi and MySQL

Matthew Rosewarne mrosewarne at inoutbox.com
Mon Aug 18 13:20:43 UTC 2008


There's no way around it: Akonadi needs MySQLd.

The goal is to somehow allow Akonadi to do what it needs to do without 
requiring the user to mess around with MySQL configuration.  The Akonadi 
service can either start & manage its own mysqld (one instance per user), or 
it can share one mysqld (one instance per system).

Currently mysqld is part of the mysql-server-* packages, which always installs 
init scripts for mysql, requires the user to set a root password, etc.

So the options would seem to be:
	1. Split out mysqld and minimal support files (without init scripts and such) 
		and let Akonadi start it.
	2. Perhaps use dbconfig-common to handle database instances, somehow do the 
		initial setup (root password and such), and make Akonadi use that instance
		instead of starting its own.
	3. Something else?
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