On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:17:56AM -0700, Craig White enlightened us:
On 4/5/06, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@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.
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 ?
Yeah, you can use mysqlclient10. Just grab that SRPM along with the MySQL SRPM and you should be good.
Matt