Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-11 Thread Liang Suilong
Thanks for all developers' great work. Here I have two questions about cluster. MariaDB stays in Fedora repository now, however, Galera Cluster does not contain in MariaDB. MariaDB with Galera Cluster is marked as stable. Is there any plan to enable Galera Cluster feature. NDBCluster Engine was

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
Liang Suilong liangsuil...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for all developers' great work. Here I have two questions about cluster. MariaDB stays in Fedora repository now, however, Galera Cluster does not contain in MariaDB. MariaDB with Galera Cluster is marked as stable. Is there any plan to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-11 Thread Andrew Rist
On 2/9/2013 1:58 AM, Remi Collet wrote: Le 25/01/2013 19:46, Norvald Ryeng a écrit : We'll try to do better in the future. So I will also try to work better, and so will report the annoying packaging bugs. MySQL Workbench 5.2.46 is released, so Connector/C++

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Remi Collet wrote: Le 09/02/2013 19:08, Alfredo Kojima a écrit : Whenever we need to use a 3rd party lib that no distribution ships, we're stuck thinking whether it's better to ship it ourselves or just leave out everything, forcing users and packagers to fetch them externally. Can you shed

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-09 Thread Remi Collet
Le 25/01/2013 19:46, Norvald Ryeng a écrit : We'll try to do better in the future. So I will also try to work better, and so will report the annoying packaging bugs. MySQL Workbench 5.2.46 is released, so Connector/C++ http://bugs.mysql.com/68320 Missing option for library

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-04 Thread Honza Horak
On 02/03/2013 06:24 PM, Pavel Alexeev wrote: 01.02.2013 00:42, James Hogarth wrote: I'd still say yes since the context of this discussion is mysql 5.5 to mariadb 5.5 and nothing to do with mysql 5.6 and the time for mariadb 10/11 to become fully compatible to what's brought to the table in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-04 Thread Henrique Junior
It looks like openSUSE is providing both, MariaDB and MySQL, with MariaDB as a default[1]. [1] - http://michal.hrusecky.net/2013/01/mysql-mariadb-and-opensuse-12-3/ 2013/2/4 Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com On 02/03/2013 06:24 PM, Pavel Alexeev wrote: 01.02.2013 00:42, James Hogarth wrote:

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:16:36AM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi But the fact that the packages conflict should stand in the way. We don't have any guidelines that forbids it. Just a note for people searching the mailing list later: We do have Guidelines that prohibit

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: You are putting the cart before the horse. You have to demonstrate its feasible to fix them before excluding future uses. I don't see how it is possible to fix the entire distribution to never use conflicts. Aggressive renaming (see e.g. what I did to kdelibs to allow

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-03 Thread Pavel Alexeev
01.02.2013 00:42, James Hogarth wrote: Is it? http://blog.mariadb.org/explanation-on-mariadb-10-0/ and http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/ seem to suggest that MariaDB will no longer be following Mysql as religiously as the feature suggests I'd still say

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: If the current maintainers orphan mysql anyone can pick it up including Oracle employees and continue it's maintenance within the distribution. Any beef, competition or what not between Red Hat and Oracle ( or anyone else for that matter ) is between Red Hat and

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Remi Collet wrote: - if you don't like fork of MySQL, why do you fork other projects ? MW include a forked version of vsqlite++ (and AFAIK, upstream is not aware of your changes / need) Another project Oracle effectively forked in OpenOffice.org, by refusing to donate the OpenOffice.org

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi But the fact that the packages conflict should stand in the way. We don't have any guidelines that forbids it. I don't see how having 2 packages which are drop-in replacements of each other and ship conflicting files (requiring the packages to Conflict with each other at RPM level) is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Do you have a proposal to solve it other than excluding all possible alternative implementations? If so, you should post it and let FPC vote on it. For a starter, I propose excluding all new uses of Conflicts (except with someEVR versioning where an EVR = someEVR is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-02-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: For a starter, I propose excluding all new uses of Conflicts (except with someEVR versioning where an EVR = someEVR is already available in the repository, or if the item being conflicted with is not in Fedora), and trying to get the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-31 Thread James Hogarth
Is it? http://blog.mariadb.org/explanation-on-mariadb-10-0/ and http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/ seem to suggest that MariaDB will no longer be following Mysql as religiously as the feature suggests I'd still say yes since the context of this discussion is mysql 5.5 to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-30 Thread Naheem Zaffar
On 30 January 2013 04:24, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: Second, if mariadb differs more in the future and stops to be drop-in replacement, then we'll need an alternative for applications, where mariadb won't be suitable enough. Nevertheless, this is not a current issue right

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-29 Thread Honza Horak
On 01/26/2013 10:33 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/26/2013 08:42 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 21:34 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.01.2013 21:24, schrieb Pierre-Yves Chibon: but keep in mind that Fedora is the base for RHEL applications may be certified for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-29 Thread James Hogarth
Firstly, some admins may be bound to mysql because of the certification or similar reason, but it probably won't be a technical reason. It'd be nice if admins work with providers in such cases and push them to add mariadb into set of supported options. I believe there won't be technical barrier

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Henrique Junior
OpenSUSE is dumping MySQL in the next release 12.3[1] and, also is Wikipedia[2] [1] - http://www.muktware.com/5148/opensuse-dumps-mysql-makes-mariadb-default-database [2] - http://www.zdnet.com/wikipedia-moving-from-mysql-to-mariadb-708912/ 2013/1/26 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Norvald Ryeng
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 20:29 +0100, Remi Collet wrote: Le 25/01/2013 19:46, Norvald Ryeng a écrit : Here's the bug: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68182 This bug has now been fixed and will be included in release 1.2.0. So, a few questions ? - why do you publish community source tarball

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/28/2013 01:22 PM, Norvald Ryeng wrote: We include the docs because they are useful to users downloading the software directly from dev.mysql.com, even if Fedora and other distros can't redistribute them. In Debian, recreating the tarball is done by the get-orig-source target in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
On 01/28/2013 01:22 PM, Norvald Ryeng wrote: We include the docs because they are useful to users downloading the software directly from dev.mysql.com, even if Fedora and other distros can't redistribute them. In Debian, recreating the tarball is done by the get-orig-source target in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:43:02PM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: We would like to replace MySQL with MariaDB in early development cycle for Fedora 19. MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but MariaDB will become the default. Also, we do not intend to support concurrent

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: Just to be clear, RHEL != Fedora. Red Hat policy for RHEL kernel is not acceptable to Fedora and Fedora kernel continues to have the patches split out. You cannot use that to defend MySQL policies here. You can do whatever you want to do

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Reindl Harald if there is no way to have both, mysqld AND mariadb Fedora should do itself a favour and keep mysqld, not for now - forever or as long not most other software supports mariadb explicitly which is not the case now It is very much possible

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.01.2013 19:59, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Reindl Harald if there is no way to have both, mysqld AND mariadb Fedora should do itself a favour and keep mysqld, not for now - forever or as long not most other software supports mariadb

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi a operating systemd / distribution should not built for it's own with the attitude what does us bother software outside our repos? this NIH syndrome is very very bad Both MySQL and MariaDB is available and neither was invented here and either can be used as per your preference. When

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 25 janvier 2013 à 19:05 +0100, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 25.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: Just to be clear, RHEL != Fedora. Red Hat policy for RHEL kernel is not acceptable to Fedora and Fedora kernel continues to have the patches split out. You cannot use that

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:05 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: Just to be clear, RHEL != Fedora. Red Hat policy for RHEL kernel is not acceptable to Fedora and Fedora kernel continues to have the patches split out. You cannot use that to defend

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 21:34 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.01.2013 21:24, schrieb Pierre-Yves Chibon: but keep in mind that Fedora is the base for RHEL applications may be certified for mysql And that is Fedora's problem how? and THAT is the problem with many pieces of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.01.2013 21:14, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: a operating systemd / distribution should not built for it's own with the attitude what does us bother software outside our repos? this NIH syndrome is very very bad Both MySQL and MariaDB is available and neither was invented

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.01.2013 21:24, schrieb Pierre-Yves Chibon: but keep in mind that Fedora is the base for RHEL applications may be certified for mysql And that is Fedora's problem how? and THAT is the problem with many pieces of fedora-development the last few years - what do we care for the real

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/26/2013 08:42 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 21:34 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.01.2013 21:24, schrieb Pierre-Yves Chibon: but keep in mind that Fedora is the base for RHEL applications may be certified for mysql And that is Fedora's problem how? and THAT is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Honza Horak
On 01/25/2013 02:46 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Tom Lane wrote: It strikes me that we missed a bet in setting up the mariadb package for only F19-and-up in git. You can request a branch (for a release which accepts branch requests, i.e. currently F17 and F18) after the fact, at any time. So you

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Honza Horak
On 01/23/2013 01:04 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On 01/22/2013 10:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally we'd just do the standard Provides/Obsoletes

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com said: Is there really no way to do removal/install like above in one yum transaction? Use yum shell. You can set up multiple things to do and then run it all as one transaction. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com wrote: Is there really no way to do removal/install like above in one yum transaction? I've been watching this thread but otherwise staying out of it :) But to answer your question I believe that if you use yum shell and tell it to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Honza Horak wrote: On 01/23/2013 01:04 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On 01/22/2013 10:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Andrew Rist
On 1/23/2013 6:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:49 -0800, Andrew Rist wrote: but the database choice for Fedora should only focus on the merits and the quality of the MySQL code You may have read the mission statement, but you appear to have entirely missed the four

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: When it comes to Freedommany companies working, contributing, and supporting open source codebases have information disclosure policies very similar to MySQL [1]. The code is still GPL and out there for everyone to check out [2].

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Morten Stevens
On 25.01.2013 18:49, Andrew Rist wrote: On 1/23/2013 6:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:49 -0800, Andrew Rist wrote: but the database choice for Fedora should only focus on the merits and the quality of the MySQL code You may have read the mission statement, but you

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Norvald Ryeng
- m...@zarb.org wrote: So let's take a very narrow and specific example, and see what could you do after the fact to make packagers life easier. While working with Remi on a package review[1], I was quite surprised to see that one Oracle engineer created a internal bug for the inclusion

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-25 Thread Remi Collet
Le 25/01/2013 19:46, Norvald Ryeng a écrit : Here's the bug: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68182 So, a few questions ? - why do you publish community source tarball with non GPL documentation inside ? We need to recreate a nodocs tarball for each version, nightmare Ex : mysql,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Remi Collet
Le 24/01/2013 02:49, Andrew Rist a écrit : We've been following the discussions to replace MySQL with MariaDB ... /me speaking from my experience. I don't maintain MySQL, but various other mysql packages (mysql-utilities, mysql-connector-python, mysql-workbench, ...). Maintaining Oracle stuff

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/24/2013 01:49 AM, Andrew Rist wrote: We've been following the discussions to replace MySQL with MariaDB in Fedora, and would like to provide additional data to help the community make the most informed decision. Instead of switching**the default to MariaDB 5.5 we would like to propose

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/24/2013 03:19 PM, Remi Collet wrote: Le 24/01/2013 02:49, Andrew Rist a écrit : We've been following the discussions to replace MySQL with MariaDB ... /me speaking from my experience. I don't maintain MySQL, but various other mysql packages (mysql-utilities, mysql-connector-python,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Norvald Ryeng
- fed...@famillecollet.com wrote: Le 24/01/2013 02:49, Andrew Rist a écrit : We've been following the discussions to replace MySQL with MariaDB ... /me speaking from my experience. I don't maintain MySQL, but various other mysql packages (mysql-utilities, mysql-connector-python,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 24 janvier 2013 à 12:11 -0800, Norvald Ryeng a écrit : I'm sorry to hear about the lack of communication. I'm a MySQL developer, and for the last year I've been working with different packagers. Linux distributions are an important part of our community, and we'd like very much to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tom Lane wrote: It strikes me that we missed a bet in setting up the mariadb package for only F19-and-up in git. You can request a branch (for a release which accepts branch requests, i.e. currently F17 and F18) after the fact, at any time. So you didn't really miss anything. :-) See:

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Nottingham wrote: Honestly, I'd be curious as to whether we could get all the compatibility testing done early enough, and packages changed, such that we could consider dropping MySQL. It's just... cleaner. +1 Shipping both is a mess we really want to avoid. Kevin Kofler --

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:12:27AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: It strikes me that we missed a bet in setting up the mariadb package for only F19-and-up in git. If we made a version available for F18, that would allow people to test compatibility without having to run rawhide, which is something

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 01/22/2013 10:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally we'd just do the standard Provides/Obsoletes dance for replacing one package with another,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally we'd just do the standard Provides/Obsoletes dance for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) said: Default might not be the exactly correct word here. The main thing I'm expecting would be that the mysql database package group would actually give you mariadb, as would the anaconda checkbox. Will it be designed to work with the alternatives

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com writes: Will it be designed to work with the alternatives infrastructure so that those that actually want mysql can swap it in/out? No; we're specifically *not* interested in building alternatives infrastructure. It would be a waste of effort if we're going

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Andrew Rist
We've been following the discussions to replace MySQL with MariaDB in Fedora, and would like to provide additional data to help the community make the most informed decision. Instead of switching**the default to MariaDB 5.5 we would like to propose that Fedora instead integrate MySQL 5.6.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:49 -0800, Andrew Rist wrote: but the database choice for Fedora should only focus on the merits and the quality of the MySQL code You may have read the mission statement, but you appear to have entirely missed the four foundations:

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Arthur G
It would nice for MariaDB to obsolete MySQL and have an emulation switch that allows it to masquerade as a MySQL installation as well as operate in native mode. This will provide backwards compatability for systems that use products that want to see a MySQL installation. This will also provide a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:24 +1100, Arthur G wrote: It would nice for MariaDB to obsolete MySQL and have an emulation switch that allows it to masquerade as a MySQL installation as well as operate in native mode. This will provide backwards compatability for systems that use products that want

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list. FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement. =

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: We would like to replace MySQL with MariaDB in early development cycle for Fedora 19. MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but MariaDB will become the default. Also, we do not

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:25:46 -0500 Tom Lane t...@redhat.com wrote: Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) said: We would like to replace MySQL with MariaDB in early development cycle for Fedora 19. MySQL will continue to be available for at least

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: Would this involve moving around any of the provides for mysql over to MariaDB? Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally we'd just do

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: Yes, that's the general idea --- any dependencies on mysql should result in installing mariadb, unless the user takes specific action to get mysql instead. Ideally we'd just do the standard Provides/Obsoletes dance for replacing one package with another, but

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: (If the compatibility testing goes *really* smoothly, maybe we could just drop the requirement for original mysql to still be available, in which case it reduces to the standard package-replacement problem. But I'm

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 02:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said: (If the compatibility testing goes *really* smoothly, maybe we could just drop the requirement for original mysql to still be available, in which case it reduces

Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-21 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list. FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement. = Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB =