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
* 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
* Make sure that only mariadb-libs, not Oracle MySQL, Provides: the libmysqlclient soname?
That's about 35 packages to touch, and all but one of them trivial modifications.
(On the general question: multiple providers are always problematic - the interfaces are usually mostly but not fully compatible, some of the cases won't be tested, etc., so I'm not too enthusiastic about encouraging them.) Mirek