Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL

Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosowski at nist.gov
Tue Mar 19 14:37:35 UTC 2013


On 03/18/2013 03:17 PM, James Antill wrote:
>   Kind of ... the rule is that all idempotent operations should match
> packages without caring about case sensitivity. So "yum install Mysql"
> doesn't work, but "yum list Mysql" does.

<pedantic> "Idempotent" means that that multiple applications of an 
operation have no further effect after the first one---so "yum install" 
is actually idempotent. </pedantic>

So, what is the rule you are referring to? perhaps it could be described 
as covering "inconsequential operations".


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