On Monday 20 June 2011 05:27:28 Colin Charles wrote:
Hi!
On 19 Jun 2011, at 21:22, Marian Marinov wrote:
Hello, I wish to package MariaDB for the EPEL repository. I have searched a bit to see if there were any efforts in that direction but I saw none.
In 2009 there was some talk about MariaDB and Fedora, but that was it, only some talk.
I have the time to prepare and test the MariaDB RPMs and to continue support them later.
My idea is to have MariaDB RPMs as replacements of the default mysql installation. In order to do so, I first want the approval of the MariaDB developers.
This would be most kind!
Please, lets get into EPEL, and there is no need for approval, just much happiness. Let me know if there's anything we can do to help
Currently its a policy problem with the EPEL since if I build the MariaDB as a replacement package for the base mysql, I will be breaking the policy of the EPEL repo. However if I make it as a separate package that will reside under /usr/local they may approve the package. But we still discuss that in the EPEL mailing list. Colin I understood from Karanbir that you are also working on the packages for the CentOS plus repo. If you want I can also take over the maintainership of the packages for CentOS plus.
Good luck!
cheers, -c -- 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/
-- Best regards, Marian Marinov