On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:11:17 +0300 Marian Marinov mm@yuhu.biz wrote:
I have thought about building both MySQL packages as a separate daemons but the problem is that since they are one and the same, they use the same port ,the same configuration files and the same data directories.
Althou that could be changed with a few simple patches this would make them somewhat cripled. Also the userland tools use the same configuration files (~/.my.cnf) which will complicate things even more.
Is it possible for the EPEL policy to bend a little here for at least one of these packages ?
I suppose these could fall under the compatibility packages thing we have been talking about for things like newer boost or the like.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Compat_Package_Conflicts
I think we are drving down a slippery slope here tho. A downside of this kind of thing also is packages or people who do 'yum install /usr/bin/mysqld'. They aren't really sure what they will get there.
I wonder if this wouldn't be better in IUS?
Or talk with upstream about renaming things so it can parallel install, and then perhaps we could change packages to need 'mysql-database' or something that could get added as a virtual provides to all of these?
Not sure there's a good answer here.
kevin