On Wednesday 05 May 2010 05:44:31 Brian K. White wrote:
On 5/4/2010 7:20 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David C. Rankin<drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> [05-04-10 18:50]:
I did an update yesterday and with zypper's or yast's 'magic' the 'update' deleted mysql from my system and replaced it with 'MariaDB'. I sure in the heck didn't tell it to do that. Somebody at Novell included code somewhere that says "On the next update, delete mysql and replace it with MariaDB -- and don't make it obvious to the user."
Novell ???
Are you grasping straws? Or just flailing out where-ever?
I know, this discussion is hilarious to witness.
People, your systems were not changed by any mystery. Novell did not make any such arbitrary disruptive change to your system. OpenSUSE 11.2 updates repo still has mysql and no mariadb in it.
That means if your system changed to mariadb during an update, it was because you ASKED for this to happen by adding some other repo to your install sources, and then performed a blind update instead of of reviewing the proposed update.
So, you went out of your way to add some external repo, and then you used it irresponsibly, and then you accused Novell of breaking your system. This is why big companies remove freedoms from the rest of us. Thanks.
One thing i have noticed over the past 18 months to 2 years is .. ,, When someone somewhere in Novelle/openSUSE drops a brick the first thing that happens is the buck is passed out to the users very quickly , This is NOT a good way to go A little LESS buck passing and a bit more oh S**T we frelled up would go a long long long way know what i mean . Pete bemused -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 07:52 up 12 days 19:33, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00