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Carl George IUS CoreDev Team ________________________________________ 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? > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ius-coredev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ius-coredev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

