Thanks, Les. That simplified things a bit. Changed the install instructions in commit 937903e <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/937903e0b533c06b864cb3c1ac15cb50e39d4676>
-tk On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:00 PM Les Niles <[email protected]> wrote: > In Buster and Stretch, and probably earlier, there is a meta-package > “default-mysql-client” that installs the preferred version of the client, > mariadb-client. In Stretch the mysql-client package still existed but it > was just dependent on default-mysql-client so still got the mariadb > version. I don’t have an older system handy to poke around on but I > imagine this arrangement existed for several previous versions. Apparently > by Buster, debian expects people to have cleaned up explicit dependencies > on the mysql packages. > > What about the server side? It looks like the same thing applies to the > mysql-server packge. > > -Les > > > > On 3 Mar 2020, at 12:36, John Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, WRT mysql-client, I’m not seeing any difference in buster between > Raspbian and standard Debian. mysql-client does not exist in both cases. > > It appears to me that Debian has moved on to mariadb as the drop in > replacement. > > As for: “ but is referred to by another package.”; perhaps an “apt > dist-upgrade” will fix it. > > On Mar 3, 2020, at 11:53 AM, Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 9:14:29 AM UTC-8, Lucas Heijst wrote: >> >> I did a fresh install of raspbian buster on a rpi 3b+ >> >> Package mysql-client is not available, but is referred to by another >> package. >> >> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or >> >> is only available from another source >> >> However the following packages replace it: >> >> mariadb-client-10.0 >> >> >> E: Package 'mysql-client' has no installation candidate >> >> >> I installed module mariadb-client-10.0 instead without any further >> errors. >> >> >> >> > This sounds like the renaming of mysql that happened a while back. If > they did the mariadb packages correctly they would be set up to 'provide' > mariadb-whatever as a capability of their package (I'm speaking from a > RedHat background and how RPM does it, I don't know if debian packages can > do that or not) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/95142a8e-430e-4c88-bc4b-010972640dc6%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/95142a8e-430e-4c88-bc4b-010972640dc6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/A065D115-61F2-4DCC-9D83-0AF1A44E483C%40johnkline.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/A065D115-61F2-4DCC-9D83-0AF1A44E483C%40johnkline.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-development" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/E65C7D54-E8F6-4074-B169-A39FD410A644%402pi.org > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/E65C7D54-E8F6-4074-B169-A39FD410A644%402pi.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CAPq0zEDorj8TJVYQJEfvhmkRPXAobMesz5-o_gJJTwpihxnGfw%40mail.gmail.com.
