[CentOS-devel] importing MariaDB to CentOS-Extras

Wed Dec 19 08:51:04 UTC 2012
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 12/19/2012 04:33 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi Guys,
>
> There seems to be a bit of interest in making MariaDB available in
> CentOS-Extras. There are a few options on how we set it up by default:
>
> 1) replace MySQL completely
> 2) Have a parallel install with default port :3307
> 3) split the package by configs and have a config that replaces mysql,
> sets port :3306 while the default install is a parallel install (
> /var/log/maraidb and port 3307 )
+1 for a complete replace. I doubt that anyone would use both servers in 
the same time on the same machine, except maybe for evaluation purposes.
Option 3 is more elegant but I do not think that it's worth the effort