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

Fri Dec 2 17:33:04 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 02 december 2011 08:37:05 schreef Sander Lepik:
+> 01.12.2011 22:10, Maarten Vanraes kirjutas:
+> > Op donderdag 01 december 2011 09:42:29 schreef Anne Nicolas:
+> >>> i'll send a new thread on this, but it's not a final decision, it's
+> >>> nothing more than just a way to get more testing so we can decide to
+> >>> opt-out or not.
+> >> 
+> >> As said before there is no other major distro that did this switch. It
+> >> seems too early for me and lots of users do still use MySQL. I would go
+> >> for MariaDB as an alternative for Mageia 2
+> > 
+> > is it ok if we could test MariaDB fully and if it's not good enough, we
+> > could decide to not use mariadb yet and resubmit mysql? or even provide
+> > mariadb as alternative?
+> 
+> I wouldn't remove MySQL. If MariaDB can't be installed next to it then i
+> would wait til mga3.
+
+It can (not client), but there's no need imho; mariadb is actually no more 
+than the patched mysql because those patches are rejected by oracle (think 
+Google patches and facebook patches as an example) + extra storage engines.
+
+if you really want to, the unpatches original (same as mysql) storage engines 
+are available for mariadb as well:
+ - innodb (unpatched; xtradb is the patched one)
+ - myisam
+ - federated
+etc...
+
+if we test mariadb, and you see no differences, why not drop it? do you agree?
+