source: server/databases/mariadb.xml@ aed3e6ec

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  <!ENTITY mariadb-download-ftp  "ftp://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/mariadb/mariadb-&mariadb-version;/source/mariadb-&mariadb-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY mariadb-md5sum        "7b1a197ea5d4027833a3a2ed26fc4cae">
  <!ENTITY mariadb-size          "54 MB">
  <!ENTITY mariadb-buildsize     "1.4 GB (additional 3 MB for the tests)">
  <!ENTITY mariadb-time          "3.6 SBU (using parallelism=4) (additional 0.4 SBU for the tests)">
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<sect1 id="mariadb" xreflabel="MariaDB-&mariadb-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="mariadb.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>MariaDB-&mariadb-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="mariadb">
    <primary sortas="a-MariaDB">MariaDB</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to MariaDB</title>

    <para>
      <application>MariaDB</application> is a community-developed fork and a
      drop-in replacement for the <application>MySQL</application> relational
      database management system.
    </para>

    &lfs77_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mariadb-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mariadb-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &mariadb-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &mariadb-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &mariadb-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &mariadb-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <note><para>The installed size of MariaDB is 388 MB, but this can be
    reduced by about 168 MB, if desired, by removing the /usr/share/mysql/test
    directory after installation.</para></note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">MariaDB Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="cmake"/> and
      <xref linkend="openssl"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libevent"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="boost"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
      <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
      <xref linkend="lzo"/>,
      <xref linkend="pcre"/>,
      <xref linkend="unixodbc"/>,
      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
      <ulink url="http://groonga.org/">Groonga</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.phontron.com/kytea/">KyTea</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/judy/">Judy</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/libaio">libaio</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://code.google.com/p/mecab/downloads/list">MeCab</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/msgpack/">MessagePack</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.mruby.org/">mruby</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/">Sphinx</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.tokutek.com/products/mysql-download-for-mysql-mariadb/">TokuDB</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="http://zeromq.org/">ZeroMQ</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mariadb"/>
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of MariaDB</title>

    <warning>
      <para>
        MariaDB and MySQL cannot be installed on the same system without 
        extensive changes to the build configuration of one of the two applications.
      </para>
    </warning>

    <para>
      For security reasons, running the server as an unprivileged user
      and group is strongly encouraged. Issue the following (as
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>) to create the
      user and group:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 40 mysql &amp;&amp;
useradd -c "MySQL Server" -d /srv/mysql -g mysql -s /bin/false -u 40 mysql</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>MariaDB</application> by running the
      following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i "s@data/test@\${INSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR}@g"        sql/CMakeLists.txt       &amp;&amp;
sed -i "s/srv_buf_size/srv_sort_buf_size/"      storage/innobase/row/row0log.cc &amp;&amp;

mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd build    &amp;&amp;

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                       \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr                      \
      -DINSTALL_DOCDIR=share/doc/mariadb-&mariadb-version;       \
      -DINSTALL_DOCREADMEDIR=share/doc/mariadb-&mariadb-version; \
      -DINSTALL_MANDIR=share/man                       \
      -DINSTALL_MYSQLSHAREDIR=share/mysql              \
      -DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR=share/mysql/test          \
      -DINSTALL_PLUGINDIR=lib/mysql/plugin             \
      -DINSTALL_SBINDIR=sbin                           \
      -DINSTALL_SCRIPTDIR=bin                          \
      -DINSTALL_SQLBENCHDIR=share/mysql/bench          \
      -DINSTALL_SUPPORTFILESDIR=share/mysql            \
      -DMYSQL_DATADIR=/srv/mysql                       \
      -DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock        \
      -DWITH_EXTRA_CHARSETS=complex                    \
      -DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=ON                        \
      -DTOKUDB_OK=0                                    \
      .. &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>sed -i ...</command>: First sed sets correct installation
      directory for some components. Second sed fixes a bug in the code.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>-DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=ON</parameter>: This switch enables
      compiling the embedded server library needed by certain applications,
      such as <application>Amarok</application>..
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>-DWITH_EXTRA_CHARSETS=complex</parameter>: This switch enables
      support for the complex character sets.
    </para>

    <!-- Manually-specified variables were not used by the project: WITH_LIBEVENT
    <para>
      <parameter>-DWITH_LIBEVENT=system</parameter>: This switch is used to
      tell the build system to use installed <application>libevent</application>.
      Remove it if you didn't install <application>libevent</application>.
    </para> -->

    <para>
      <option>-DWITHOUT_SERVER=ON -DWITH_UNIT_TESTS=OFF</option>: Use these
      switches if you don't want the server and would like to build the client
      only.
    </para>

    <note><para>
      There are numerous options available to <command>cmake</command>. Check
      the output of the <command>cmake . -LH</command> for additional
      customization options.
    </para></note>


  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring MySQL</title>

    <sect3 id="mariadb-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para>
        <filename>/etc/mysql/my.cnf</filename> and
        <filename>~/.my.cnf</filename>
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="mariadb mariadb-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.my.cnf">~/.my.cnf</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="mariadb mariadb-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-mysql-my.cnf">/etc/mysql/my.cnf</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>
        Create basic <filename>/etc/mysql/my.cnf</filename>
        using the following command as the <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -dm 755 /etc/mysql &amp;&amp;
cat &gt; /etc/mysql/my.cnf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Begin /etc/mysql/my.cnf

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password       = your_password
port            = 3306
socket          = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port            = 3306
socket          = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
datadir         = /srv/mysql
skip-external-locking
key_buffer_size = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 16K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all.
skip-networking

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
server-id       = 1

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables
#bdb_cache_size = 4M
#bdb_max_lock = 10000

# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = /srv/mysql
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /srv/mysql
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#innodb_log_file_size = 5M
#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer_size = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

# End /etc/mysql/my.cnf</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        You can now install a database and change the ownership to the
        unprivileged user and group (perform as the <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user):
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr --datadir=/srv/mysql --user=mysql &amp;&amp;
chown -R mysql:mysql /srv/mysql</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        Further configuration requires that the
        <application>MariaDB</application> server is running. Start
        the server using the following commands as the <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -o mysql -g mysql -d /run/mysqld &amp;&amp;
mysqld_safe --user=mysql 2&gt;&amp;1 &gt;/dev/null &amp;</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        A default installation does not set up a password for the
        administrator, so use the following command as the <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user to set one.
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mysqladmin -u root password</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        Configuration of the server is now finished. Shut the server
        down using the following command as the <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mysqladmin -p shutdown</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="mariadb-init">
      <title>Boot Script</title>

      <para>
        Install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql</filename> init script
        included in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package as
        the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user to start the
        <application>MariaDB</application> server during system boot-up.
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="mariadb mariadb-init">
        <primary sortas="f-mysql">mysql</primary>
      </indexterm>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install-mysql</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          aria_chk, aria_dump_log, aria_ftdump, aria_pack, aria_read_log,
          innochecksum, msql2mysql, my_print_defaults, myisam_ftdump,
          myisamchk, myisamlog, myisampack, mysql, mysql_client_test,
          mysql_client_test_embedded, mysql_config, mysql_convert_table_format,
          mysql_embedded, mysql_find_rows, mysql_fix_extensions,
          mysql_install_db, mysql_plugin, mysql_secure_installation,
          mysql_setpermission, mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, mysql_upgrade,
          mysql_waitpid, mysql_zap, mysqlaccess, mysqladmin, mysqlbinlog,
          mysqlbug, mysqlcheck, mysqld, mysqld_multi, mysqld_safe, mysqldump,
          mysqldumpslow, mysqlhotcopy, mysqlimport, mysqlshow, mysqlslap,
          mysqltest, mysqltest_embedded, mytop, perror, replace,
          resolve_stack_dump, and resolveip
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libmysqlclient.{so,a},
          libmysqlclient_r.{so,a} (symbolic links to libmysqlclient.{so,a}),
          libmysqld.{so,a}, libmysqlservices.a,
          and several under /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/mysql,
          /srv/mysql,
          /usr/include/mysql,
          /usr/lib/mysql,
          /usr/share/doc/mariadb-&mariadb-version;, and
          /usr/share/mysql
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>

    <para>
      Descriptions of all the programs and libraries would be several
      pages long. Instead, consult the man pages
      or the online documentation at <ulink
      url="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-documentation/"/>.
    </para>

    <para>
      The <application>Perl</application> DBI modules must be installed
      for some of the <application>MariaDB</application> support programs to
      function properly.
    </para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>