MySQL-libs conflicts with mariadb-libs-5.5.29-7.fc19.x86_64

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Mar 11 19:00:06 UTC 2013


Honza Horak wrote:

> On 03/11/2013 12:30 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> 3.  And long-term, what to do about MySQL-libs getting pulled into live
>> image composes?  can it be blacklisted or something?
> 
> It won't be problem only in case of live image composes, but in
> requiring libmysqlclient.so.18 generally, because RPM simply chooses one
> of the packages providing the same library. It is officially
> un-deterministic (usually it is the shorter one), but we cannot depend
> on it right now.
> 
> So to solve the live image composes issue for now I adjusted the major
> soname number to libmysqlclient.so.1018. I know it doesn't solve all the
> issues, though.

Can't we just remove MySQL-libs entirely? Or does MySQL-server require the 
client library?

I wish FESCo had decided to just drop MySQL-server entirely, it would have 
prevented all this fiasco!

        Kevin Kofler



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