Re: net-mgmt/zabbix7-server: default package settings

Simon Wright <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Apr 2026 07:23:33 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 2026-04-03 22:13, Juraj Lutter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 3. Apr 2026, at 10:15, Simon Wright <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Juraj!
>> 
>> I have been using Zabbix for some time now and really appreciate
>> that it is now built with MySQL support enabled. The very recent
>> change of the default MySQL version has shown up a slight issue:
>> the default port setting for poudriere is MYSQL=ON which pulls in
>> MySQL v8 client however this causes a conflict when other ports
>> require the FreeBSD default version which is now 8.4 rather then
>> 8.0.
>> 
>> Setting the option MYSQLDV=ON deals with this however it is not
>> set by default and using it requires adding the port to the local
>> poudriere build list. Not a big deal since I use poudriere for
>> other packages anyway but please would you consider setting
>> MYSQLDV=ON instead of MYSQL=ON so that the OS default MySQL
>> version can be used to build the package?
>> 
> 
> This is, basically, a very good suggestion.
> 
> The problem is that Zabbix (in the past) did not always catch up
> with MySQL versions and it happened that the default MySQL version
> in FreeBSD was just “too new” for Zabbix. Thist might not be the
> case nowdays, howeveer.
> 
> What is still the case, is that, for example, they did not catch
> with PostgreSQL’s TimescaleDB extension releases (and it quite
> frequently happens that the TimescaleDB extension version in ports
> ist too new for zabbix). That’s why I’m careful with such switch
> even with MySQL.
> 
> Nevertheless, I will explore the viability of switching the default
> MySQL to MYSQLDV.

Understood and thanks for your response. I was sure that there was a
good reason for having two MYSQL options available :).

I've been running MySQL 8.4 server for a while now but using the 8.0
MySQL client on most VM's. My use case is that I build rsyslog with
MySQL with poudriere to use to feed a database and with the default
version change this required an update to the 8.0 client - which broke a
Zabbix HA node! I hadn't seen the MYSQLDV option at that stage and only
found it when I started to dig into the issue. Setting it and building a
Zabbix server package of course fixed the issue. An alternative would 
probably have been a libmap.conf entry but that's a rather brute force 
approach.

Happy to leave this with you knowing that you have the issue in view.

Thanks again,

Simon.

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