Anders F Björklund wrote: > Jim Perrin wrote: > >> MySQL5 and associated packages are now available in the c4-testing >> repository for i386 and x86_64. It should be fully compatible with >> current centos4 packages requiring mysql, such as php-mysql etc. >> Feedback is appreciated. > > > Q: > What is the main benefit of running these packages (incl. the old), > over running the vendor RPM packages available from dev.mysql.com ? > Is it a MySQL "Community Edition" versus "Red Hat Edition" thing ? the main benefit would be to have this s/w in a yum repository - and to have it updated for bug fix's and security updates ( perhaps not as much or as fast as the core pkgs would be - but you will not be left dangling with these pkgs either ) > On a side note, I have made a similar "pq3" package for upgrading > from PostgreSQL 7.x to PostgreSQL 8.x - how would I go about to > submit this RPM as an enhancement package to the CentOS project ? > > (it provides the old /usr/lib/libpq.so.3, for package compatibility) > Excellent! Upload the .src.rpm's somewhere on the net and drop an email here to the list. What we might also need, along with this package, is the entire pgsql rpm set - so that people can just enable the repl, and yum update to pgsql 8. - K