Should MariaDB touch my.cnf in %post?

Chris xchris89x at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 14 12:07:21 UTC 2013


2013/2/14 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>> Surely you are not honestly consider replacing mysql installation with
>> mariadb on upgrades?
>
> Have you missed the discussion? MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL,
> it will REPLACE MySQL in Fedora repositories, and we like to keep existing
> setups WORKING (e.g. we don't want to break Akonadi, which relies on an
> autospawned mysql-server, or Amarok, which relies on mysql-embedded) and
> supplied with security updates (which would not be the case for an
> unmaintained MySQL RPM from an older Fedora release that just sits on your
> disk), so of course, MariaDB WILL replace MySQL on upgrades.

In other words: It is not possible to install mysql on ferdora 19???
Fedora and freedom??? Freedom is to have the choice between mysql and
mariadb!

--
Chris


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