Should MariaDB touch my.cnf in %post?

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 05:40:53 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Norvald H. Ryeng wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:07:22 +0100, Rahul Sundaram
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>>>  MariaDB WILL replace MySQL on upgrades.
>>>
>>
>> Well, unless Oracle as upstream wants to get involved as downstream
>> maintainers in Fedora as well.  They did offer to do that but don't seem
>> to have stepped up yet.
>
>
> Let's do it now, then. :-)
>
> We want to keep the MySQL package in Fedora and are willing to co-maintain
> or take over maintainership if nobody else will do it. We haven't really
> discussed this with the current maintainers yet, but from the discussions on
> this list it seems they're not interested in maintaining the package after
> F19. If us stepping up changes that, we are happy to co-maintain.
>
> Any input on how we can and should proceed is welcome.
>

The steps to become a Fedora package maintainer is well documented in the wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

The package is not banned. Nobody is stopping a potential MySQL
maintainer in Fedora.

Best,
Orcan


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