On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:47:20PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
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."
I do have OBS-database as a repository and looking at the individual repos, that is where 'sweet Maria' must have come from.
Hmm, but that's exactly why 'zypper up' doesn't update packages if there's a vendor mismatch. Did you disable this in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf? Or did you use 'zypper dup'? (It probably also is a mistake that mariadb obsoletes mysql. This tells the solver that it should be regarded as "newer". Instead of the obsoletes it should just conflict with mysql.) Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder mls@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Markus Rex, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org