[Mageia-dev] replace mysql by mariadb ? (was HEADSUP: mariadb available for testing)

Thu Dec 1 01:38:23 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Luc Menut at 30/11/11 23:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le 30/11/2011 22:34, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+>> Op dinsdag 29 november 2011 00:21:04 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
+>>> so please, test mariadb, build stuff against lib64mariadbclient18 , and
+>>> give opinion to which option to choose: A/B .
+>>
+>> ok, so :
+>> 3 people vote B
+>> 0 people vote A
+>> 0 people have disagreement
+>>
+>> ==>  100% agreed
+> 
+> Please, you should first ask on the ML with a proper subject like "[RFC]
+> replace mysql by mariadb for mga 2 ?" and don't hide this
+> choice/question in a thread where you announce that mariadb is available
+> for testing. And wait at least one week, so that people have time to reply.
+> 
+> Do you know some distribution that have done this replacement?
+> 
+> I just quickly look at 3 main distributions;
+> - Fedora doesn't seem to have mariadb,
+> - OpenSuse has mariadb, but still builds there packages againt mysql,
+> - Debian doesn't seem to have mariadb.
+> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565308
+> 
+> and this replacement doesn't seem to be so easy as you claim:
+> e.g. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284810
+> 
+> Do you agree to fix all the bugs introduced by the replacement of mysql
+> by mariadb?
+> 
+> 
+> When this was discussed a first time on this list, Nicolas Vigier
+> proposed to start with mariadb as an alternative:
+> "I would start with mariadb as an alternative. Then drop mysql later,
+> if/when it's confirmed that mysql is really dead and we could check
+> that mariadb is a good replacement."
+> https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110408/003919.html
+> 
+> I agree with this, and I think that it's still a sensible choice.
+
++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
+
+
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