Fedora just started to work on MariaDB 10.2 packaging they create compat symlinks for a sane transition and i try to backport that to my F25 builds with change as less as possible on my existing "mariadb.spec" 10.2.7 seems to do the same now (Fedora last night was still on 10.2.6) well, "libmysqlclient.so.18" is missing in your upstream compat links while "libmysqlclient.so" and "libmysqlclient_r.so" gave an error "ln: failed to create symbolic link 'libmysqlclient.so': File exists" within rpmbuild https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=918138 ___________________________________________ pushd %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/mysql/ ln -s libmariadb.so libmysqlclient.so ln -s libmariadb.so libmysqlclient.so.18 ln -s libmariadb.so libmysqlclient_r.so popd ___________________________________________ + pushd /home/builduser/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/mariadb-10.2.7-3.fc25.20170713.rh.x86_64/usr/lib64/mysql/ ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/mariadb-10.2.7-3.fc25.20170713.rh.x86_64/usr/lib64/mysql ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/mariadb-10.2.7 + ln -s libmariadb.so libmysqlclient.so.18 + popd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/