[Mageia-dev] Replacing mysql with mariadb

Thu Dec 1 10:32:14 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 01/12/11 08:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> The way I see it, there are 2 possibilities:
+> A. I remove the mysql-client, libmysqlclient, mysql-common and assorted 
+> packages from mysql, and provide them with mariadb, since libmysqlclient is 
+> drop-in replacable (same library ABI and such), there is not 100% requirement 
+> of rebuilding all libmysqlclient dependant programs.
+
+I think that rather than just provide them, it would make sense to use
+the update-alternatives system.
+
+It's going to be quite hard to rip out one package and drop in the other
+without some problems so it would be nice if we could install both at
+the same time and switch between them with a simple update-alternatives
+plan. This would perhaps facilitate easier testing too (i.e. easy to
+compare one to the other and switch about etc.)
+
+In the initial stages you can make MariaDB have a higher priority in the
+update-alternatives setup to encourage more usage/testing coverage.
+
+While I appreciate it's extra effort for you and QA, I think this is the
+best route forward for mga2 at least.
+
+Col
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+Colin Guthrie
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