@Christian you are absolutely right, i also do not feel very comfortable using the mariadb from AUR and would be glad to see if we can find a solution for the drop-in/zerofill problem i tried to find anything about the problem, does somebody know what the statement of mariadb is? Best regards Am Di., 18. Dez. 2018 um 23:47 Uhr schrieb Genes Lists via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 12/18/18 3:54 PM, Christian Hesse wrote: > > > > The remaining issue is that zerofill support in libmariadb is broken. > > > > > Thanks Christian: > > I certainly assume you're all making sound decisions on holding off > on 10.3.11 - but it would be helpful, if you you wouldn't mind, sharing > a little more info about that. > > Are we waiting for fixes to client apps (which ones) or further fixes > to mariadb server or mariadb client lib or something else? Sounds like > the client library from above? > > What client apps are affected and how badly - i.e. what would break if > we did update. > > I do note that there are a lot of security fixes in the newer mariadb > [1] (12 CVEs alone in 10.3.11). > > I also note that fedora has included 10.3 and marked it as a security > update [2] (or at least its in Bodhi)- does that mean fedora doesn't > support those client apps that prevent updates like we do? > > Debian seems also seems to not ship 10.3 as far as I can tell and > neither does ubuntu nor Opensuse (not sure about tumbleweed). So we're > clearly not alone here. > > Thanks for your work keeping Arch the best!! > > regards > > gene > > > > [1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10311-release-notes/ > [2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=mariadb&page=1 >
