On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:42 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Honza Horak hhorak@redhat.com wrote:
In case of MySQL/mariadb (just for demonstration) the config file would contain say: MySQL +10000 mariadb -10000 which would tell yum to prioritize MySQL.
I'm sure that there are several other use cases for such utility. It would bring a bit more complexity on the one hand, but would decrease ambiguity in specific cases on the other hand.
Any ideas about such tool/plugin?
I'm not following the MySQL/mariadb packaging discussion in full detail - however, if we got to the point of discussing special yum plugins, wouldn't it be much simpler to
We, didn't, really.
- Modify the 10 packages that require mysql-server, the 19 packages
that require mysql, the 3 packages that require mysql-libs (all F18 counts) to require mariadb-* explicitly instead of using the virtual provide
This means users can't choose between the mysql's if they want to, so if we do this it'd be much easier to just say "we'll only have a single `mysql' in Fedora" and then we'd just have to add one more obsolete to mariadb and everything works perfectly.