Hi! On 3 May 2013, at 21:18, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2013 15:07:50 +0200, Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, Honza! >> >> On May 03, Honza Horak wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> MariaDB forked mytop utility source some time back, but it causes some >>> issues for us in Fedora for example (and similarly in other >>> distributions I guess) -- particularly the MariaDB's binary mytop >>> conflicts with the same utility from separate package mytop. So, I'd >>> like to take a look at possible solutions. >>> >>> Since there was a small commit in mytop upstream few weeks back, it >>> doesn't really look like totally dead upstream. So the ideal solution >>> from my POV would be including enhancements that MariaDB did to mytop >>> back to upstream and not including mytop utility in MariaDB any more. >>> >>> Would something like that be possible from the perspective of MariaDB? >> >> Yes, certainly. I'm not sure why somebody did it in the first place. >> But we've had this conflict issue also on Ubuntu and CentOS: >> >> https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-519 >> https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3952 >> >> both bugs are closed, and now we don't include mytop either in .deb or >> in .rpm packages. > > MariaDB mytop is in 10.0.0 EL6 rpms. And mytop has dependencies there > that aren't listed in the rpm (some perl modules). > > If mytop isn't going to be dropped from MariaDB in favour of upstream, > I would suggest it is at least packaged up as a separate MariaDB package > (e.g. MariaDB-mytop), with properly listed perl dependencies so they > are pulled in during a yum install. > > mytop that ships with MariaDB seems very different and more detailed > than what is available in epel, though - but that could just be > epel being way out of date... > Thanks for informing us. I'll take it as a task to look at mytop properly next week and fix it, seems like its low hanging fruit created: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4476 as a tracker -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ | twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles MariaDB: Community developed. Feature enhanced. Backward compatible. Download it at: http://www.mariadb.org/ Open MariaDB/MySQL documentation at the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
