On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 14:44, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolcott@gmail.comwrote:

Hi;

I want MySQL source rpms pertinent to CentOS 5.4; what packages should I request via yum?

I first went to mysql.org but I could not find (perhaps I am blind) any MySQL source tarballs or rpms, only binary rpms.

I would like to compile MySQL from source.

BTW, what happened to centos.org? When using Firefox or Chrome it looks like it is text-only as if I were visiting it with lynx!

Thanks in advance for pointers/advice towards answering a very lame question.

Ken Wolcott kennethwolcott@gmail.com

It looks like the CentOS web site looks like it used to look now; I wonder what happened?

Ken Wolcott

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On 19/07/2010 23:44, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

Hi;

I want MySQL source rpms pertinent to CentOS 5.4; what packages should I request via yum?

I first went to mysql.org http://mysql.org but I could not find (perhaps I am blind) any MySQL source tarballs or rpms, only binary rpms.

I believe if your yum is appropiatly configured centos 5.4 you could install yum-utils and do something like the following or similar:

#$ yumdownloader --source mysql-server #$ rpm -ivhp just-downloaded-rpm

Or you could also browse http://mirror.centos.org/ for the source rpm

But if you insist and dont want the source for the very mysql provided by centos 5.4 you could browse mysql.com (or org maybe):

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql not too far from the top is a drop down box - select "source code" and that will lead to sources.

- -- Regards, Markus