Stuttgart: a rainy day, waiting for Iftar. Good time for good news!
During my vacation I read about a request for a MariaDB package for Mac OS X and did some research. Back from vacation I have an alpha version of MariaDB package for Mac OS X for our community to test.
Caution: this is the first installer I ever wrote on a Mac, so use it on a test system only!
I would like you to test the installer and provide us with feedback.
Known issues in the MariaDB installer:
- The Preferences Pane app for starting/stopping the server instance is missing
- The installer for setting up MariaDB as a Startup Item is missing.
Side node: while digging into the Mac installer I found two
bugs in the MySQL Mac OS X installer.
- http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56279
Mac installer does not work as documented - http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56280
Mac installer’s postflight script does not work all the time
You can grab the package from here:
http://lisas.de/~hakan/file/mariadb-5.1.49-osx10.6-x86.pkg
Hey Hakan! Very cool. I remember when I first created the original Mac OS X packages for MySQL – seems like they haven’t changed much since then. Likely these bugs are mine
And thanks for reporting them in the bug tracker – the links above actually both point to bug #56279, by the way!
Cheers!
Hej Lenz! Nice to hear from you again. I fixed the link for bug #56280. I “wrote” the installer with PackageMaker, which is quite buggy for it self.
I made Mac dmg packages for my WL820 branch … to make it easier for people to try out the branch. It was an interesting exercise.
Very, very nice! Having successfully replaced MySQL with MariaDB on Linux I was looking forward to start testing MariaDB on my own MacBook as well. Your Mac OS X package is exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you!
Would you be willing to share your Installer pmdoc file(s)? I’d like to help you develop them if I can, and also update to the latest MariaDB binaries, and possibly add an additional installer for 5.2. Send me an email if you’re willing to share and collaborate.
Hi Alan,
I compiled the package with the graphical package tool of Mac OS X. Meanwhile I found the packaging scripts for Mac OS X from MySQL times. I can give you some pointers how to get the sources, if you want.
Cheers,
Hakan
Hello Hakan,
I just ran your installer on my Macbook Air under Mac OS X Lion and it worked perfectly.
I made a tarball of the old mysql data/ directory and moved it to the MariaDB directory and unpacked it. Then I used the System Preferences MySQL Preferences Pane to restart MariaDB and everything is there! Sequel Pro and MySQL Workbench both report MariaDB running.
Thank you so much for making this installer!!
Hello,
where is locate MariaDB after installation ? i see nothing in /Applications or /Library/Applications ….
thanks
It is installed in /usr/local just like on Linux.