is dev-db/percona-server discontinued??

admin8000 · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2023 Posts: 3

since a long time, percona-server is not updated in portage..
anyone knows if percona-server is discontinued?
last version in portage is 8.0.26.16 but percona website shows 8.0.3x.x

thanks for any infos.

kind regards
admin8000

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:08 am Post subject:

admin8000,

Welcome to Gentoo.

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:09 pm Post subject:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/890762
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admin8000 · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2023 Posts: 3

@fedeliallalinea , well that bug report is from me :-)

as you can see, it seems nobody answers... thats why i am asking if percona is discontinued on gentoo

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2943

Hello and welcome to the forums! Perhaps to Gentoo too!

Maintaining an ebuild might be an easy task, however this is rarely the case. What's to say a whole tree.

Things in Gentoo get discontinued for two main reasons:
1) upstream discontinues the project
2) there's nobody who can maintain it for a long time and it's not a straightforward task for the rest of the maintainers to do it and nobody can commit.

If you need it so much you could try setting up a custom repository, copy the ebuild and necessary files into it and try to just rename the ebuild to the relevant version, then run `ebuild <ebuild> manifest`. It might or might not work. If it doesn't work, you could use the occasion to try to fix it and learn something about ebuild writing. And you could even become the maintainer

p.s. I tried it for you and it won't work because some of the patches fail. The fix might be straightforward, but I don't have the time to attempt it.
p.s.2 if you fix the patch, you need to rerun the ebuild manifest command. It'll create check sums for the files and write it to the manifest. If you change anything you need to rerun it.
p.s.3 it turns out those patches are maintained and possibly produced by a Gentoo developer, so there's your answer why it hasn't been updated in a long time. This ebuild seems to be one of those that require extra work.

Best Regards,
Georgi

admin8000 · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2023 Posts: 3

ahoi!

ya, i am not able to fix the patch. i am not so deep into this chapter of portage :-(

But i can solve it by doing an vm with ubuntu und percona-server on it.
Not my fav but works until the portage is updatet with newer version..

thanks for ya motivation and ideas