On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Alexander Farber <alexander.farber at gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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"). If you are making changes, why not just move to CentOS7 which will include reasonably current packages? > 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. I wouldn't lump fedora and EPEL in the same sentence like that. There is very little risk from adding packages from EPEL. On the other hand, because they have a policy of not overwriting base packages, you won't find a newer mysql package there. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com