docs: update MySQL documentation bits

The MySQL documentation bits where missing a few important details for
installation setup to succeed like:

- having proper python-mysqldb support
- overriding the DATABASE_ENGINE to "mysql" for django to succeed in the
  "syncdb" operation

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>

diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL
index cb71cdd3eb8845bc7c85a3e06c3985831d0a4303..28f85d55e834874896359f66a26b7a59b210266e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/INSTALL
+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ in brackets):
   * django >= 1.2
   * A webserver (apache)
   * mod_python or flup
-  * A database server (postgresql)
+  * A database server (postgresql, mysql)
+  * relevant python modules for the database server (e.g: python-mysqldb)
 
 1. Database setup
 
@@ -64,6 +65,17 @@ in brackets):
         > CREATE USER 'www-data'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
         > CREATE USER 'nobody'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
 
+       Once that is done, you need to tell Django about the new Database
+       settings, using local_settings.py (see below) to override the defaults
+       in settings.py:
+
+       DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql'
+       DATABASE_NAME = 'patchwork'
+       DATABASE_USER = 'root'
+       DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'my_secret_root_password'
+       DATABSE_HOST = 'localhost'
+       DATABASE_PORT = ''
+
 2. Django setup
 
         Set up some initial directories in the patchwork base directory: