On 03/19/2017 10:43 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:24:27AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: >> On 03/19/2017 10:00 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> >On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 08:32:38AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: >> >>I'm getting things ready to upgrade my aging installation of MySQL >> >>5.0.95 on my CentOS 5 LAMP server. With the impending EOL date of 3.31 >> >>fast approaching my sense of doom and urgency is increasing. >> > >> >It isn't clear to me, but are you migrating away from CentOS 5 as part >> >of this MySQL update? >> > >> >> Heavens no... I love my CentOS 5 server. I going to try and keep it around >> as long as possible. I've got another machine in the rack that I've got >> CentOS 7 installed on, but there are differences in that OS and the items >> running on it that I don't like at all. SELinux comes to mind... >> >> No, I definitely have plans on running CentOS5 for while long. Mostly >> because there's an issue with one of the web apps I'm running on my C5 >> server that is having problems running correctly on C7. I haven't figured >> out why yet. > > I figured that since you mentioned the EOL date of 3.31, you > understood that meant no new updates for CentOS 5. No more support > for CentOS 5. That means you'd be putting in all this work to migrate > mysql on a platform that isn't supported anymore. Why bother updating > mysql then? Its going to be living on an unsupported platform anyway, > with no bug fixes or security patches. > I think I explained that above... There are issues with one of my main web applications on my CentOS 7 box that are taking a lot more time resolving then was anticipated, so I'd like to upgrade MySQL on the CentOS 5 server while I'm working things out. Guess I'll stumble through this as well...