[Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: mariadb available for testing

Fri Nov 18 12:38:16 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 18 november 2011 11:33:12 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+[...]
+> I'm pretty sure I've seen this problem before... can't remember exactly
+> what it is but it relates to the path of a utility or a the version file
+> (for mysql_update script) or something similar.
+
+i'll check it out
+
+> I don't have this package installed right now (mysql is kinda part of my
+> day job platform, and while I will definitely investigate mariadb, I'm
+> not about to jump ship for philosophical reasons just yet (live
+> environments running CentOS and RHEL will mean using Maria locally is
+> not necessarily a wonderful idea for me just yet! - although mysql
+> version differences aren't that clever either and I do that :D)
+> 
+> Col
+
+Considering i'm noticing that mariadb just starts from a 5.5 branch of mysql, 
+then applies the patches that have always been rejected, then add the new 
+storage engines, it's pretty identical to mysql. and on top of that, they seem 
+more acceptable to upstreaming our mageia patches (which i partly did), so it 
+might just be easier maintainable.
+