Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 10:37 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 03:17 PM, James Antill wrote:
> >   Kind of ... the rule is that all idempotent operations should match
> > packages without caring about case sensitivity. So "yum install Mysql"
> > doesn't work, but "yum list Mysql" does.
> 
> <pedantic> "Idempotent" means that that multiple applications of an 
> operation have no further effect after the first one

 True.

> ---so "yum install" 
> is actually idempotent. </pedantic>

 No, as install can still do upgrades etc.

> So, what is the rule you are referring to? perhaps it could be described 
> as covering "inconsequential operations".

 Yeh, that's probably close. A longer explanation is probably:

 Operations that are "read-only", from the users point of view, will
match packages ignoring case sensitivity.

...or as a quick hack, if it says "list/info/search" at the end then
it's probably good :).