Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

[Nat Gross]

On 11/7/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:14, Nat Gross wrote:
> > When you updated, yum just did its best to get you up to date
> > according
> > the comps.xml file.
> >
> > except that it did not install mysql 3.x. Just dumped the rpm in its
> > cache. (Good thing [for my data!]it didn't install 3.x.)
>
> It probably tried to install what is really the current mysql for
> your distribution and failed because of the bits and pieces from
> the other version that it didn't know about.
>
> You might want to consider switching to either Centos4.x or
> fedora FC4, either of which will have mysql 4.x as part of
> the distribution so the normal update procedure not only will
> work but will include updates for the installed mysql. Using
> Centos has the advantage of being able to expect several
> years of update support before you have to re-install again.
> FC4 would have more current desktop apps.


I shiver at the thought of jumping to FC4 *now*.
-nat
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