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(was HEADSUP: mariadb available for testing)</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20replace%20mysql%20by%20mariadb%20%3F%20%28was%20HEADSUP%3A%20mariadb%0A%20available%20for%20testing%29&In-Reply-To=%3C4ED6CC7F.3070005%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] replace mysql by mariadb ? (was HEADSUP: mariadb available for testing)">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Thu Dec 1 01:38:23 CET 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010031.html">[Mageia-dev] replace mysql by mariadb ? (was HEADSUP: mariadb available for testing) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010039.html">[Mageia-dev] replace mysql by mariadb ? 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And wait at least one week, so that people have time to reply. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Do you know some distribution that have done this replacement? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I just quickly look at 3 main distributions; +</I>><i> - Fedora doesn't seem to have mariadb, +</I>><i> - OpenSuse has mariadb, but still builds there packages againt mysql, +</I>><i> - Debian doesn't seem to have mariadb. +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565308">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565308</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> and this replacement doesn't seem to be so easy as you claim: +</I>><i> e.g. <A HREF="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284810">http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284810</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Do you agree to fix all the bugs introduced by the replacement of mysql +</I>><i> by mariadb? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> When this was discussed a first time on this list, Nicolas Vigier +</I>><i> proposed to start with mariadb as an alternative: +</I>><i> "I would start with mariadb as an alternative. Then drop mysql later, +</I>><i> if/when it's confirmed that mysql is really dead and we could check +</I>><i> that mariadb is a good replacement." +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110408/003919.html">https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110408/003919.html</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I agree with this, and I think that it's still a sensible choice. +</I> ++1 + +While I don't envisage any major problems for myself with this, I am +also a little concerned as mysql is one of the few packages I actually +rely on for my day job, so I'm a little wary of having the choice +removed for me (I like to keep minimal differences to the live +environment where ever possible and while this intention pretty much +always bogus as I have different versions, but at least at the moment +it's the same project). It's not a huge deal for me to build my own +mysql packages if I decide I need them, but I'd certainly rather avoid +this if possible. + +And if you do decide to do it, please do announce it in an official +thread and gather feedback as Luc mentioned. + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010031.html">[Mageia-dev] replace mysql by mariadb ? 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