From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 15:50:30 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [1/1,RFC] mysql: replace mysql with mariadb 10.0 In-Reply-To: <0775fdeb-5056-73cd-4cf8-7d4edeb6d8a7@mind.be> References: <0775fdeb-5056-73cd-4cf8-7d4edeb6d8a7@mind.be> Message-ID: <20160917155030.3eb602eb@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:17:51 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > How responsible is it to keep packages in such state around, when there do are > > alternatives? > > True. But it should be relatively easy to bump the existing mysql package. If > it is completely replaced by mariadb, it won't be so easy anymore. > > We could mark mysql as deprecated pending the bump. That could motivate people > to step up and fix it. As Floris said, our mysql package is deprecated, so I'm all for replacing it with an up-to-date mariadb package. If later on, someone else really needs MySQL, we can re-add it, and add the necessary virtual package to allow selecting between mysql and mariadb. But until there's a decent mysql package available, I believe replacing it completely with an up-to-date mariadb package is better. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com