Depending on the definition of replace I wonder if you could do a Provides: mysql as long
as your the packages would appear similarly to dependent packages.
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On Jun 19, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Marian Marinov <mm(a)yuhu.biz> wrote:
On Sunday 19 June 2011 20:45:17 Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On 06/19/2011 07:01 PM, Marian Marinov wrote:
>> I'm planning on proposing both Percona-SQL and MariaDB packages for
>> inclusion in the EPEL-5 repo.
>>
>> I wish to know would you accept these packages in EPEL if they are a
>> replacement of the current mysql.
>
> I think that's clearly a "no".
>
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#What_is_Extra_Packages_for_Enterprise_Li
> nux_.28or_EPEL.29.3F
>
> "EPEL packages [...] will never conflict with or replace packages in the
> base Enterprise Linux distributions."
>
Huh, I'm sorry I forgot that. I'll talk with the CentOS guys to see if I can
include them in the CentOSplus repo.
Regards,
Marian
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