No problem, feel free reach out via email, irc, or github issues for any future 
questions.

Carl George
IUS CoreDev Team

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From: Joe Pruett <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 11:13 AM
To: Carl George
Subject: Re: [Ius-community] correct way to use mysql55 from ius on centos 5

switching to the mysqlnd module did get rid of the warnings about
mismatched library/server so i think i'm good. and this removes my
desire for the specific php/mysql combos. thanks.

On 06/02/2015 09:06 AM, Carl George wrote:
> The replace plugin was designed around replacing stock packages; I haven't 
> seen anyone try to use it in this context before.  `yum shell` works reliably 
> on all current EL releases.
>
> # yum shell
>> erase php54-mysql
>> install php54-mysqlnd
>> run
> EL7 also has the `yum swap` command, which lets you do transactions similar 
> to `yum shell` in a single command.  In the future, yum will be deprecated in 
> favor of dnf, which has a flag `--allow-erasing` built in [1].  dnf is 
> already available in EPEL7.  yum-replace-plugin isn't actively developed 
> anymore, and probably won't be needed in future RHEL releases.
>
> [1] 
> http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli_vs_yum.html#packages-replacement-without-yum-shell-or-yum-swap
>
> Carl George
> IUS CoreDev Team
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Joe Pruett <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 10:20 AM
> To: Carl George
> Subject: Re: [Ius-community] correct way to use mysql55 from ius on centos 5
>
> yeah, wasn't think about the 5.3 eol. i'm willing to try the mysqlnd
> interface, but:
>
> yum replace php54-mysql --replace-with=php54-mysqlnd
>
> doesn't actually work. it wants to update all php54 modules, and then
> still errors because "php54-mysql conflicts with php54-mysqlnd".
>
> is that something worth reporting? i'll go try a simple remove/install
> instead.
>
> On 06/02/2015 06:35 AM, Carl George wrote:
>> Well for sure it won't happen with the php53u series; that branch is EOL.
>>
>> As far as with active PHP branches, we aren't against it, but as with all 
>> package requests we would evaluate it and decide if it makes sense.  In this 
>> case, I'm struggling to see the benefit.  You can use php54-mysql with 
>> mysql55 via the mysqlclient16 library package; we aren't aware of any 
>> incompatibilities of this setup.  It is even easier if using one of the 
>> native driver packages (php54/55u/56u-mysqlnd) [1][2], since they don't 
>> depend on libmysqlclient at all.
>>
>> What problem would a php*-mysql55 package solve?
>


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