What is best way to install MySQL 4.1?

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:08 -0500, John Swartzentruber wrote:
> On 2/14/2005 3:39 PM Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:31:22 -0500, John Swartzentruber
> > <nospam2 at mcswartz.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>I think this is a more general question than just MySQL, so I'm asking
> >>it here.
> >>
> >>I am running FC3, which comes with MySQL 3.23. I would like to run a
> >>more recent version. I tried updating to version 4.1 using yum and the
> >>fedora-devel repository, but after downloading lots of updates and
> >>dependencies, it still ended up with an incompatibility and didn't do
> >>the update.
> > 
> > 
> > remove the fedora provided mysql rpms and use the ones provided by mysql.com
> 
> What will this do to rpms that depend on the mysql-3.23 rpm?

Depends on how the depends are specified (= or >=) and how different the
new MySQL is from the old.

> 
> For that matter, how do I determine what depends on a package? I did a 
> "man yum" and a "man rpm", but I didn't see what I was looking for (I 
> did find the reverse). Is there a good way to determine in advance what 
> a "yum remove" will do without having it actually remove a package and 
> all packages that depend on it?

One way - do "yum remove <package>" and then (carefully) answer no.

Phil