[CentOS] older distro have newer package in base repo

Thu Nov 20 15:53:12 UTC 2014
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Just wondering why in EL5's base repo the latest supported mysql 
package is 5.5 and in EL6's base repo it is 5.1? Seems strange to me.

(it is clear that the SCL of EL6 has version 5.5 but that implies a
different update policy).

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LF