On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:14 -0400, James Olin Oden wrote: > 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 ? Craig