[debian-mysql] [gaio at sv.lnf.it: compiling mysql 5.0 in wheezy, with different path...]

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Marco Gaiarin's message of 2014-06-18 09:55:38 -0700:
> 
> I can still waiting some feedback... please... thanks.
> 
> 
> Sorry for asking you this strange question.
> Please, i perfectly know security implications of using a so old and so
> unsupported mysql version, but, really, i've no alternatives....
> 
> I need (clearly, for a closed-source application) mysql 5.0 in modern
> debian; as a first try, i've recompiled the lenny version 5.0.51a and
> package built and works. Cool.
> 
> But in some server i need mysql for some ''modern'' application, and
> clearly i prefer not to use that old version.
> Also, i need mysql 5.0 on some server, so i prefer to have a .deb.
> 
> 
> There's some ''easy'' way to repackage mysql 5.0 so they use diffent
> binary names (eg, with suffix '-5.0') and different folder dir?
> (clearly, when run, a different TCP port, but this is the easy part ;)
> Or it is needed to ''review'' all the packaging by hand anyway?

Use a chroot or containers.