On 08/26/2011 09:52 AM, Dirk Müller wrote:
On Thursday 25 August 2011, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
I would rather drop mysql-community-server than mariadb which is esentially an improved version of the former that uses either backports or custom tailored fixes.
Possible, I don't have a preference between those two, except that the mariadb package seems to be nonworking at the moment (trying factory with empty dir, the init script aborts becasue the initial database setup fails).
Not having to deal with Oracle is also a plus. ;)
as this is the community edition, I don't think we have to deal with Oracle in any way. The big plus is that Oracle maintains this version for us, so the only thing to do to fix security / bugs is usually to do a patchlevel version update.
I'm not sure if the same applies to mariadb. My main point is: choose one, please.
Thanks, Dirk
Dirk to be able to (for example) drop mysql-community version, we need to test all mysql linked software against mariadb. So first enable a long (I suspect very long) list of those software. Perhaps there's a hook somewhere in obs, able to auto-build those deps. Then test carefully, one by one, to be sure there's no big failure or regression with mariadb. and notice any changes or optimization needed to be applied by admins (db conversion etc) in a long readme. Would be nice to have to support only one. But I've a doubt about the pure drop'in replacement. It's not like replacing cron by cronie ... There's user data involved in that case. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org