Should MariaDB touch my.cnf in %post?

[Honza Horak]

On 02/16/2013 01:10 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 01:00:38PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's all going to depend on what we want the upgrade experience to be like
>>> for people going from f18 to f19.  I believe that FESCo punted it down the
>>> road since there wasn't an actual MySQL package maintainer at the time we
>>> decided to accept the Feature (just potential ones).
>>
>> The feature page that was approved explicitly says
>>> In Fedora 19, MariaDB packages obsoletes MySQL. That means that all packages of MySQL will be automatically replaced by corresponding MariaDB pacakges during update.
>>     Mirek
>
> but we talked about this in the fesco meeting and decided that we're doing a
> versioned Obsolete.  So if a newer mysql package were to be built, it would
> no longer be obsoleted.  Like I say, my impression is that we deferred the
> question of what our desired outcome would be if that happened since there
> wasn't sure to be a mysql packager yet (and still isn't I guess... although
> we're getting closer to seeing one show up :-)
>
> -Toshio

MariaDB currently uses "Obsoletes: mysql < 5.6-0" in F19, because if we 
used current version (e.g. "Obsoletes: mysql < 5.5.30") then as soon as 
mysql-5.5.31 comes it would mean even much more mess. Actually, it also 
reflects where MariaDB stays from features & quality POV -- somewhere 
between mysql-5.5 and mysql-5.6.

Honza