Percona MySQL and MariaDB in EPEL

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn dennisml at conversis.de
Mon Jun 20 00:52:55 UTC 2011


On 06/19/2011 09:40 PM, Marian Marinov wrote:
> 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.

If you package them as a direct replacement for mysql then yes but I would 
argue given that these versions are changed quite a bit they sould be 
packaged separately instead.

Regards,
   Dennis




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