Percona MySQL and MariaDB in EPEL

[Aaron Knister]

Depending on the definition of replace I wonder if you could do a Provides: mysql as long as your the packages would appear similarly to dependent packages.

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On Jun 19, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Marian Marinov <mm at yuhu.biz> wrote:

> On Sunday 19 June 2011 20:45:17 Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On 06/19/2011 07:01 PM, Marian Marinov wrote:
>>> I'm planning on proposing both Percona-SQL and MariaDB packages for
>>> inclusion in the EPEL-5 repo.
>>> 
>>> I wish to know would you accept these packages in EPEL if they are a
>>> replacement of the current mysql.
>> 
>> I think that's clearly a "no".
>> 
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#What_is_Extra_Packages_for_Enterprise_Li
>> nux_.28or_EPEL.29.3F
>> 
>> "EPEL packages [...] will never conflict with or replace packages in the
>> base Enterprise Linux distributions."
>> 
> 
> Huh, I'm sorry I forgot that. I'll talk with the CentOS guys to see if I can 
> include them in the CentOSplus repo. 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Marian 
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