Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 18.03.2013 20:55, schrieb James Antill: >> This means users can't choose between the mysql's if they want to, so >> if we do this it'd be much easier to just say "we'll only have a single >> `mysql' in Fedora" and then we'd just have to add one more obsolete to >> mariadb

Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-20 Thread Norvald H. Ryeng
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:56:04 +0100, Honza Horak wrote: On 03/18/2013 07:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: I'm not following the MySQL/mariadb packaging discussion in full >detail - however, if we got to the point of discussing special yum >plugins, wouldn't it be much simpler to > >* Modify the 10

Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-19 Thread Honza Horak
On 03/18/2013 07:17 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: I'm not following the MySQL/mariadb packaging discussion in full >detail - however, if we got to the point of discussing special yum >plugins, wouldn't it be much simpler to > >* Modify the 10 packages that require mysql-server, the 19 packages >that

Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.03.2013 20:55, schrieb James Antill: > This means users can't choose between the mysql's if they want to, so > if we do this it'd be much easier to just say "we'll only have a single > `mysql' in Fedora" and then we'd just have to add one more obsolete to > mariadb and everything works per

Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-18 Thread James Antill
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:42 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Honza Horak wrote: > > In case of MySQL/mariadb (just for demonstration) the config file would > > contain say: > > MySQL +1 > > mariadb -1 > > which would tell yum to prioritize M

Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-18 Thread James Antill
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:30 +0100, Honza Horak wrote: > I'd like to discuss the topic about virtual provides in a general > context (not related to MySQL->MariaDB replacement) to find out what > actually is a consensus in Fedora about an issue when "two packages > provide the same (not only) vir

Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) said: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Honza Horak wrote: > > In case of MySQL/mariadb (just for demonstration) the config file would > > contain say: > > MySQL +1 > > mariadb -1 > > which would tell yum to prioritize MySQL. > > > > I'm s

Re: Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-18 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Honza Horak wrote: > In case of MySQL/mariadb (just for demonstration) the config file would > contain say: > MySQL +1 > mariadb -1 > which would tell yum to prioritize MySQL. > > I'm sure that there are several other use cases for such ut

Yum plugin for prioritize providers [was Re: Fwd: MariaDB replacing MySQL]

2013-03-18 Thread Honza Horak
I'd like to discuss the topic about virtual provides in a general context (not related to MySQL->MariaDB replacement) to find out what actually is a consensus in Fedora about an issue when "two packages provide the same (not only) virtual symbol" -- particularly what package maintainers could/s