Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL

[Honza Horak]

On 03/09/2013 07:20 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> and why in the world is this not solved more pragmatically?
>
> my conslusion is
> * MariaDB will replace mysql as default
> * any package will be linked against mariadb
> * Oracle MySQL should only provide the server and not the client-tools

This doesn't solve all the issues -- if package like akonadi-mysql says 
"Requires: mysql-server", then Oracle MySQL either wouldn't satisfy that 
requirement or (in case it includes "Provides: mysql-server") RPM 
choosing behavior would be ambiguous.

> so why is MariaDB not obsoleting mysql without all
> this versioning tricks and "mysql-oracle" installs
> the server under "/usr/local/mysql-oracle/" and
> provides a "mysql-oracle.service"?

This is simply not possible in Fedora:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_Files_or_Directories_under_.2Fsrv.2C_.2Fopt.2C_or_.2Fusr.2Flocal

Honza