On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.farber@gmail.com wrote:
Now I have decided to switch to WordPress for my new projects and am (sadly) forced to switch the database too:
I have to use MySQL or MariaDB with CentOS 6.5.
So my question is: if anybody can recommend a similarly comfortable package repository for MySQL/MariaDB - which wouldn't mess up any other CentOS packages and which would update itself (with "yum update").
If you are making changes, why not just move to CentOS7 which will include reasonably current packages?
And please do not suggest something like Fedora or EPEL repositories, because other than for MySQL/MariaDB I would like not to add any additional packages to have my server as "stable" as possible.
I wouldn't lump fedora and EPEL in the same sentence like that. There is very little risk from adding packages from EPEL. On the other hand, because they have a policy of not overwriting base packages, you won't find a newer mysql package there.