Am 14.02.2018 um 12:56 schrieb Florent B:

On 14/02/2018 12:49, Sergei Golubchik wrote:

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Hi, Florent!

On Feb 14, Florent B wrote:

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Hi,

Wouldn't be nice to have a metapackage mariadb-backup in Debian repository, that depends on the current best version (mariadb-backup-10.2, etc..) ?

Like "mariadb-server" package in fact. Yes, I guess. It'll be consistent with what we do with the server.

Of course, if you also have a solution how to reduce the number of packages, that'd be perfect :)

Hmm, how about that? We rename the following packages to remove "-10.1" at the end.

mariadb-connect-engine-10.1 mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.1 mariadb-cracklib-password-check-10.1 mariadb-gssapi-server-10.1 mariadb-gssapi-client-10.1 mariadb-backup-10.1

This way the server package will specify the version (either "mariadb-server-10.1" for 10.1 or "mariadb-server" for the latest) and everything else will follow.

Looks logical and doesn't increase the number of packages (!!!). But I need to try whether it'll actually work in Debian :)

Wow ! Someone understood what I mean. Thank you a lot Sergei, I though I was crazy seeing other people's answers well, i don't get why there needs to be a metapackage at all

http://yum.mariadb.org/10.1/rhel6-x86/rpms/ http://yum.mariadb.org/10.2/rhel6-x86/rpms/ these are different repos and you have either 10.1 or 10.2 enabled whatever packages in whatever versions are there, the update manager without mention a version explicit takes the one with the highest number independent of a new install or update %package server Summary: The MariaDB server and related files Requires: %{name} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}, %{name}-libs = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} Requires: sh-utils Requires(pre): shadow-utils Provides: mysql-server = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}, mysql-server%{?_isa} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release} Obsoletes: mysql-server, community-mysql-server %description server "dnf install mysql-server" == "dnf install mariadb-server" == "dnf install community-mysql-server" why? because the Provides/Obsoletes in my spec say so