On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 03:10:47PM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: >Dear fellow CentOS users, > >for my few hobby projects (web games + forums) I have been using CentOS 5 >(then 6) with Drupal and PostgreSQL plus few custom PHP and Perl scripts >written by mysef. > >Since PostgreSQL version delivered with CentOS package has been a bit >dated, I always used the PGDG packages: > > # rpm -qa | grep -i pgdg > > pgdg-centos93-9.3-1.noarch > postgresql93-9.3.5-1PGDG.rhel6.i686 > postgresql93-libs-9.3.5-1PGDG.rhel6.i686 > postgresql93-server-9.3.5-1PGDG.rhel6.i686 > >As a web developer this has been a very pleasant experience, since (by some >great magic) all the other CentOS packages (like php-pgsql and perl-DBD-Pg) >just worked with the PGDG packages. > >Now I have decided to switch to WordPress for my new projects and am >(sadly) forced to switch the database too: > >I have to use MySQL or MariaDB with CentOS 6.5. > >So my question is: if anybody can recommend a similarly comfortable package >repository for MySQL/MariaDB - which wouldn't mess up any other CentOS >packages and which would update itself (with "yum update"). > >And please do not suggest something like Fedora or EPEL repositories, >because other than for MySQL/MariaDB I would like not to add any additional >packages to have my server as "stable" as possible. > >Thank you for any hints >Alex >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi Alex, MariaDB itself has RHEL/CentOS repos: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/documentation/getting-started/getting-installing-and-upgrading-mariadb/mariadb-binary-packages/installing-mariadb-rpm-files/installing-mariadb-with-yum/ But you could limit EPEL repo to only include MariaDB packages and deps with 'includepkgs=' directive in the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo config file, like [epel] ... default stuff ... includepkgs=MariaDB-* some-deps-package See example here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus Regards, Martin