MySQL links in Solaris 11.2 have gone from /usr/mysql/bin

Question

I see that Solaris 11.2 now comes with MySQL 5.5 but I notice that the symbolic links (/usr/mysql/bin, etc) have been removed from all the packages.
# Solaris 11.1
# ls -l /usr/mysql/
total 9
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     bin            8 Feb 15  2012 5.1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           7 Feb 15  2012 bin -> 5.1/bin
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Feb 15  2012 docs -> 5.1/docs
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          11 Feb 15  2012 include -> 5.1/include
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           7 Feb 15  2012 lib -> 5.1/lib
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           7 Feb 15  2012 man -> 5.1/man
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           9 Feb 15  2012 share -> 5.1/share
# Solaris 11.1
# pkg contents -r -m database/[email protected]| grep "link path=usr/mysql/"
link path=usr/mysql/5.1/bin/64 target=sparcv9 variant.arch=sparc
link path=usr/mysql/bin target=5.1/bin
link path=usr/mysql/5.1/bin/64 target=amd64 variant.arch=i386
link path=usr/mysql/share target=5.1/share
link path=usr/mysql/docs target=5.1/docs
# Solaris 11.2
# pkg contents -r -m database/[email protected] | grep "link path=usr/mysql/"
link path=usr/mysql/5.1/bin/64 target=amd64 variant.arch=i386
link path=usr/mysql/5.1/bin/64 target=sparcv9 variant.arch=sparc
Should they be added back?
Andrew

Answer 1

This is not an oversight. As MySQL 5.1 libraries are not compatible with the 5.5 version and to avoid some breaks, you must check and modify all programs and/or scripts that you use if you want to use this new version.