On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: >>> >> 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. >> >> Won't (and shouldn't) that be a problem for any repository with a >> policy of "don't replace core packages"? > > What they mean is probably to Conflict with mysql, not Obsolete it. A > `yum update` won't kill your Mysql. So what happens to all of the packages that require mysql clients? Or is the client side compatible? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com