Should MariaDB touch my.cnf in %post?

[Andrew Rist]

No, it's not crippleware - it's the world's most popular open source 
database software.
MySQL Community Edition is available under the GPL license and is 
supported by a huge and active community of open source developers 
[1].   Among the many recent improvements are some substantial 
performance improvements delivered in MySQL 5.6 [2].
We're interested in user choice, and we want do what we can to help 
create the best possible user experience for those users that choose to 
use MySQL with Fedora.
Andrew


[1] http://www.mysql.com/products/community/
[2] 
http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/2013/02/mysql-performance-mysql-56-vs-mysql-55-vs-mariadb-55.html



On 2/17/2013 5:57 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> Also MySQL 5.6 gains some of its speed through [non-Free] commercial
>> extensions (like e.g. the thread pool).
> That's one more reason to NOT ship MySQL in Fedora now that there is an
> alternative: It's crippleware!
>
>> All of this benefits Fedoras users.
> Software intentionally crippled to be able to sell proprietary "extensions"
> to it is NOT beneficial to our users!
>
>> Besides I don't think excluding a specific piece of software without
>> technical reasons would set a somewhat dangerous precedent. As long as
>> there are people willing to maintain these packages and the packages
>> themselves follow all necessary guidelines they should be allowed to do
>> so.
> Just look at how this has been handled with XFree86 vs. X.Org: The
> maintainers of XFree86 in Fedora decided to switch to X.Org, so the package
> was renamed, rebased to the new upstream and Obsoletes made the migration
> automatic and with no hassle at all for our users. Why can't we do the same
> here?
>
> Just because some Oracle folks desperately want to keep THEIR version of the
> software in Fedora (and the ones who actually would be doing the packaging
> haven't even spoken here, nor do they have any experience with official
> Fedora packages, as opposed to crappy upstream RPMs which would almost
> certainly not pass review as is), we're going to 1. overrule the experienced
> Fedora MySQL maintainers and 2. maybe even require the users to migrate
> MANUALLY to the recommended solution? Surely that cannot be it! I don't see
> why that would be in Fedora's nor its users' interest.
>
> I sure hope you aren't going to propose reviving XFree86 in Fedora!
>
>          Kevin Kofler
>

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Andrew Rist | Interoperability Architect
OracleCorporate Architecture Group
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