CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

Just running a yum update on a server and this month we see this

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Installing: MariaDB-client x86_64 10.4.34-1.el7.centos Default_Organization_mariadb_el7_repo_mariadb_el7_x86-64 12 M replacing mariadb.x86_64 1:5.5.68-1.el7 MariaDB-compat x86_64 10.4.34-1.el7.centos Default_Organization_mariadb_el7_repo_mariadb_el7_x86-64 2.2 M replacing mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.68-1.el7

mysql-community-client x86_64 5.7.44-1.el7 Default_Organization_mysql-5_7_x86-64_mysql-5_7_el7_x86-64 31 M replacing mariadb.x86_64 1:5.5.68-1.el7 mysql-community-libs x86_64 5.7.44-1.el7 Default_Organization_mysql-5_7_x86-64_mysql-5_7_el7_x86-64 3.0 M replacing mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.68-1.el7 mysql-community-libs-compat x86_64 5.7.44-1.el7 Default_Organization_mysql-5_7_x86-64_mysql-5_7_el7_x86-64 1.2 M replacing mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.68-1.el7

Soi why is mysql-community replacing mariadb ?

And then we get

Transaction check error: file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/armscii8.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ascii.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1250.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1251.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1256.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1257.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp850.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp852.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp866.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/dec8.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/geostd8.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/greek.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/hebrew.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/hp8.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/keybcs2.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/koi8r.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/koi8u.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin1.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin2.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin5.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/latin7.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/macce.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/macroman.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/swe7.xml conflicts between attempted installs of mysql-community-common-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 and MariaDB-common-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysql conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysqladmin conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysqlbinlog conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysqlcheck conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysqldump conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysqlimport conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysqlshow conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin/mysqlslap conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysqladmin.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlbinlog.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlcheck.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlimport.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlshow.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/mysqlslap.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of MariaDB-client-10.4.34-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and mysql-community-client-5.7.44-1.el7.x86_64

anyone any idea what on earth is going on?

didds