[CentOS-devel] mariadb:10.11 module enabled by default in latest C9S compose

Tue Feb 20 08:20:02 UTC 2024
Alfredo Moralejo Alonso <amoralej at redhat.com>

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 7:28 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

> On 20/02/2024 03:01, Michel Lind wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 06:22:47PM +0100, Alfredo Moralejo Alonso wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> After the last C9S compose I'm getting the module mariadb:10.11 enabled
> by
> >> default, which is breaking OpenStack deployment which was based on 10.5.
> >>
> >> # dnf module list
> >> Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:11 ago on Wed Feb 14 17:15:59 2024.
> >> CentOS Stream 9 - AppStream
> >> Name                                           Stream
> >>                  Profiles
> >>                Summary
> >>
> >> mariadb                                        10.11 [d]
> >>                   client, galera, server [d]
> >>                MariaDB Module
> >>
> >>
> >> # dnf list mariadb
> >> Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:34 ago on Wed Feb 14 17:15:59 2024.
> >> Available Packages
> >> mariadb.x86_64
> 3:10.11.6-1.module_el9+853+7b957b9b
> >>               appstream
> >>
> >> Is this a bug? I guess this goes against stability rules in RHEL?
> >>
> > Not a RH engineer myself, but from the documentation, the stability
> rules are more relaxed for appstream:
> >
> >
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhel-app-streams-life-cycle
> >
> > """
> > Application Streams will be available during the Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux lifecycle. Multiple versions of user space components are delivered
> and updated more frequently than the core operating system packages. This
> provides greater flexibility to customize Red Hat Enterprise Linux without
> impacting the underlying stability of the platform or specific deployments.
> > """
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
>
> that's true but that exact same page also mentions (under "RHEL 9 Full
> Life Application Streams Release Life Cycle") that mariadb 10.5 is there
> (and the only mariadb version btw) with "retirement date" set to "May
> 2032" :-)
> I guess new version should an "opt-in" module soon but shouldn't be the
> default one ? (just a guess on my side though)
>
> Alfredo : worth creating a ticket to ask for clarification ?
>
>
I already created one:

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-25802

As you said, mariadb 10.5 is in the list of applications supported during
the major life cycle, so, imo it should be the default.

Alfredo



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