[CentOS] MySQL 4.1 on CentOS 3

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:14 -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > Have a situation where I am either going to have to update entire system
> > > to CentOS 4 (don't want to do that) or install MySQL 4 on CentOS 3
> > > system.
> > >
> >
> > try building the centos4 .src.rpm for mysql4 on your machine ? that
> > _should_ work, and also give you some sort of an upgrade / update path.
> > I've not tried this so cant confirm, but its well worth a try.
> >
> Also, the mysql.org SRPM for MySQL 4.x on rhel3 works wonderfully. 
> Been using it for a while.  Problem is if you need other parts of the
> system like apache or php to be linked against MySQL 4, in which case
> these packages (of which there are many) need to be rebuilt AFAIK.
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of course...what was I thinking?

yes, that is one horrible gotcha...but can't I keep the client library
for mysql3 in place and still use php-mysql ?

Craig