On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:56:04 +0100, Honza Horak <hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/18/2013 07:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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?
I would like non-conflicting libraries as well.
>That's about 35 packages to touch, and all but one of them trivial
>modifications.
This does sound much simpler, IMO.
It does, but it would be hard to install MySQL in case any package
requries mariadb, since the two packages conflict. And making the
packages non-conflicting doesn't seem so simple -- it would mean to
change location of the binaries or change their file-names, which would
mean quite a lot of patching. But generally, if we find a way how to
make the packages to be usable and non-conflicting, it could work fine.
I would also like to have non-conflicting packages. I don't think changing
the names of the binaries would be that much work, but there are config
files, scripts that refer to the binaries, etc. It's some work, but I
think it's doable. And it would solve much of our headache. At least, I
think it's worth considering.
Regards,
Norvald H. Ryeng
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