Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) said: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Honza Horak <hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In case of MySQL/mariadb (just for demonstration) the config file would > > contain say: > > MySQL +10000 > > mariadb -10000 > > which would tell yum to prioritize MySQL. > > > > I'm sure that there are several other use cases for such utility. It would > > bring a bit more complexity on the one hand, but would decrease ambiguity in > > specific cases on the other hand. > > > > Any ideas about such tool/plugin? > > I'm not following the MySQL/mariadb packaging discussion in full > detail - however, if we got to the point of discussing special yum > plugins, wouldn't it be much simpler to > > * Modify the 10 packages that require mysql-server, the 19 packages > that require mysql, the 3 packages that require mysql-libs (all F18 > counts) to require mariadb-* explicitly instead of using the virtual > provide > > * Make sure that only mariadb-libs, not Oracle MySQL, Provides: the > libmysqlclient soname? > > That's about 35 packages to touch, and all but one of them trivial > modifications. This does sound much simpler, IMO. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
