Comments on: To not yum or to not apt-get? https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get Blog by Shlomi Noach Tue, 01 May 2012 08:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.3 By: Installing MySQL from source/binary tarball as a Linux service | code.openark.org https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-88534 Tue, 01 May 2012 08:10:17 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-88534 […] To not yum or to not apt-get? […]

]]> By: Guide to MySQL installation files | code.openark.org https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-22011 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:27:23 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-22011 […] To not yum or to not apt-get? […]

]]> By: Poll: what (minor) versions of MySQL should be supported by an open source MySQL related project? | code.openark.org https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-11920 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:30:11 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-11920 […] How about supporting 5.0.22 (released almost 4 years ago, with almost 70 revisions since)? Would you expect an open source project to support this MySQL version because, say, this is the default version in your yum repository? […]

]]> By: shlomi https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-10860 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:15:38 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-10860 @Singer,

I think I have it explained in the post.

Because:
1. They do not allow for multiple installations

2. yum will still remove such installations if it thinks it should

3. frankly, I don’t like it where RPMs have different conventions on different distros; not to mention different than deb packages.

/var/lib/mysql?
/var/run/mysql?

]]> By: Singer Wang https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-10857 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:09:01 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-10857 why “I consider a binary tarball to be the best MySQL installation format”.. If you on RHEL, why not get the MySQL RHEL RPMs?

]]> By: Log Buffer #179: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | The Pythian Blog https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-10785 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:50:47 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-10785 […] Data Charmer, reports on the Linux MySQL distros meeting in Brussels. He says, “When I saw Shlomi’s post on why not to use apt-get or yum for MySQL, I thought immediately that his conclusions are quite reasonable. What you get from the Linux […]

]]> By: shlomi https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-10765 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:16:30 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-10765 Hi Brian,

apt-mark will let you mark packages as having been *automatically* installed, which means when you remove other packages that depend on said packages, they are automatically removed (as opposed to “I’ve manually installed thi package so do not remove it when you see no one using it”).

I’m not aware of marking non-existent packages as installed. But I’m not an expert on this.

]]> By: Brian Jones https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-10752 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:06:52 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-10752 I could be wrong about this, but I thought somewhere I read that it’s possible with apt-get to mark packages as installed, without them actually being installed, so the other packages which depend on them could be installed.

I could be wrong about this though.

]]> By: shlomi https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-10735 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:54:46 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-10735 Arjen,

Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Arjen Lentz https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/to-not-yum-or-to-not-apt-get/comment-page-1#comment-10718 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:42:26 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=1776#comment-10718 The issue is not the fact that it’s repos, but the “outdatedness” of the mysql versions in distros.

Try the MySQL 5.0 and MariaDB 5.1 repos at http://ourdelta.org/

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