On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:10 PM "Jan-Frode Myklebust" wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:17:00AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > The way this worked in the past (and still does on RHEL and some > > other > > distros) is that MySQL AB provided RPMs named "MySQL", > > "MySQL-server", > > etc, which simply conflicted with the Red Hat-supplied packages > > named > > "mysql", "mysql-server", etc. Perhaps it would be best to continue > > that > > naming tradition, ie establish a new Oracle-maintained Fedora > > package > > named "MySQL", instead of figuring out how to transition > > maintainership > > of the "mysql" packages. This would give us some more wiggle room > > about > > managing the transition --- in particular, it's hard to see how we > > manage Obsoletes/Provides linkages in any sane fashion if the > > "mysql" > > package name continues in use. I think we're going to have to end > > up > > with a design in which "mysql" becomes essentially a virtual > > Provides > > name. > > > > I'm quite amazed at how MariaDB is allowed to do this takeover of > mysql > in fedora. Why can't MariaDB use it's own configuration files, own > datadir, own socket, own binary names, etc.. ? I'm no Oracle or > Mysql > fan, but as far as I see it Oracle/mysql is the original branch of > the > mysql project, and I think a competing fork should do it's best not > to > conflict with it. No effort not to conflict seems to be happening > here, > rather the opposite. Upstream chose the way of drop-in replacement, which means that the same API including file names was actually a feature. Why we don't do it differently in Fedora is obvious -- we don't want to differ from upstream. > What happens when MariaDB and Mysql start diverging? Will it be > impossible to have a client that connects to both mysql and mariadb > servers ? Most probably not. I doubt that if these projects start diverge in the future, incompatible changes in client-server protocol will be desired changes. I believe the opposite would be true -- which is compatibility on this layer will be still important. Honza -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
