Re: [Maria-developers] Forked mytop - conflicts, issues

Hi! On 3 May 2013, at 21:18, Gordan Bobic wrote:

On Fri, 3 May 2013 15:07:50 +0200, Sergei Golubchik wrote:

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Hi, Honza!

On May 03, Honza Horak wrote:

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Hi guys,

MariaDB forked mytop utility source some time back, but it causes some issues for us in Fedora for example (and similarly in other distributions I guess) -- particularly the MariaDB's binary mytop conflicts with the same utility from separate package mytop. So, I'd like to take a look at possible solutions.

Since there was a small commit in mytop upstream few weeks back, it doesn't really look like totally dead upstream. So the ideal solution from my POV would be including enhancements that MariaDB did to mytop back to upstream and not including mytop utility in MariaDB any more.

Would something like that be possible from the perspective of MariaDB?

Yes, certainly. I'm not sure why somebody did it in the first place. But we've had this conflict issue also on Ubuntu and CentOS:

https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-519 https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3952

both bugs are closed, and now we don't include mytop either in .deb or in .rpm packages.

MariaDB mytop is in 10.0.0 EL6 rpms. And mytop has dependencies there that aren't listed in the rpm (some perl modules).

If mytop isn't going to be dropped from MariaDB in favour of upstream, I would suggest it is at least packaged up as a separate MariaDB package (e.g. MariaDB-mytop), with properly listed perl dependencies so they are pulled in during a yum install.

mytop that ships with MariaDB seems very different and more detailed than what is available in epel, though - but that could just be epel being way out of date...

Thanks for informing us. I'll take it as a task to look at mytop properly next week and fix it, seems like its low hanging fruit created: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4476 as a tracker -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ | twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles MariaDB: Community developed. Feature enhanced. Backward compatible. Download it at: http://www.mariadb.org/ Open MariaDB/MySQL documentation at the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/