Am 30.10.2012 02:21, schrieb Tom Lane: > Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> i doubt MariaDb would be interface-compatible in most cases >> BUT not binary comatible as you can also not replace MySQL 5.1 >> against MySQL 5.5 without compat-packages (remi did outside >> fedora-packages) as long depending packages are linked against >> a specific version > > <facts> > Just for the record, we *did* replace 5.1 with 5.5 without any compat > package, back in Fedora 15. It seemed to go just fine; we had to > rebuild dependent packages, but that was about it (and there weren't > that many). I don't see any reason to think that replacing mysql with > mariadb would be harder than the 5.1-to-5.5 transition was. > </facts> and how do you rebuild all this packages against mysql-5.x AND mariadb to switch between both at runtime if one says "i use mariadb" and installs it by replacing mysql/mysql-libs? in F15 you pushed 5.5 and so there was done a rebuild remi provided 5.5 for F14 and that is why he had to provide compat-libs to solve depencencies with official fedora packages BTW: there was even a ABI-break between the first 5.5 releases that said to imagine how binary compatible mysql/mariadb will be over the long
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