Percona MySQL and MariaDB in EPEL

[Marian Marinov]

On Sunday 19 June 2011 21:53:46 Aaron Knister wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I think it should do 'Provides: mysql'. Otherwise it will break quire a 
few packages. 

But as far as I understand, this is again a replacement of a base package. 

> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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Marian Marinov
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