On 02/27/2013 02:12 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
FYI MariaDB has been built for EPEL5 and EPEL6 being maintained by the Fedora maintainer so a CentOS built package may not be needed in future:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875150
RHEL6.5 and RHEL7 should be very interesting ;)
the next release feature tag has been tracked into rawhide for next fedora release. And unless there is a policy change in EPEL, its not going to suiteable for there either. Look here : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB
The bit that we are keen to drive towards is to bring this into place now, for people who want to make the switch - or to try and see if we can get a parallel install in place as well ( similarly percona-db is being worked on too )
Regards