Hi, Rich! On Jan 24, Rich Prohaska wrote: > Suppose that we have a RHEL5 machine running and we want to install > MariaDB on it. Unfortunately, it conflicts with files installed by > the mysql package. > > # rpm -i MariaDB-5.5.28a-centos5-x86_64-common.rpm > warning: MariaDB-5.5.28a-centos5-x86_64-common.rpm: Header V3 DSA > signature: NOKEY, key ID 1bb943db > file /etc/my.cnf from install of MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64 > file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml from install of > MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64 > file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1250.xml from install of > MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64 > file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1251.xml from install of > MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64 > > Unfortunately, a lot of other packages require the mysql package. > What is a good approach to solving this problem?
A good approach is to use yum, not rpm. And to install MariaDB-compat. MariaDB-compat provides mysql-5.1 compatible shared libraries. And yum can install and uninstall few packages in a transaction, without breaking other packages, that might require mysql libraries. Regards, Sergei _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
