[CentOS] MySQL 4.1 on CentOS 3

Wed Apr 5 17:25:19 UTC 2006
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:17:56AM -0700, Craig White enlightened us:
> > On 4/5/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> > > Craig White wrote:
> > > > Have a situation where I am either going to have to update entire system
> > > > to CentOS 4 (don't want to do that) or install MySQL 4 on CentOS 3
> > > > system.
> > > >
> > >
> > > try building the centos4 .src.rpm for mysql4 on your machine ? that
> > > _should_ work, and also give you some sort of an upgrade / update path.
> > > I've not tried this so cant confirm, but its well worth a try.
> > >
> > Also, the mysql.org SRPM for MySQL 4.x on rhel3 works wonderfully. 
> > Been using it for a while.  Problem is if you need other parts of the
> > system like apache or php to be linked against MySQL 4, in which case
> > these packages (of which there are many) need to be rebuilt AFAIK.
> ----
> of course...what was I thinking?
> 
> yes, that is one horrible gotcha...but can't I keep the client library
> for mysql3 in place and still use php-mysql ?
> 

Yeah, you can use mysqlclient10. Just grab that SRPM along with the MySQL
SRPM and you should be good.

Matt

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