On Sunday 19 June 2011 21:53:46 Aaron Knister wrote: > Depending on the definition of replace I wonder if you could do a Provides: > mysql as long as your the packages would appear similarly to dependent > packages.
Yes, I think it should do 'Provides: mysql'. Otherwise it will break quire a few packages. But as far as I understand, this is again a replacement of a base package. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 19, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Marian Marinov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday 19 June 2011 20:45:17 Ville Skyttä wrote: > >> On 06/19/2011 07:01 PM, Marian Marinov wrote: > >>> I'm planning on proposing both Percona-SQL and MariaDB packages for > >>> inclusion in the EPEL-5 repo. > >>> > >>> I wish to know would you accept these packages in EPEL if they are a > >>> replacement of the current mysql. > >> > >> I think that's clearly a "no". > >> > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#What_is_Extra_Packages_for_Enterprise > >> _Li nux_.28or_EPEL.29.3F > >> > >> "EPEL packages [...] will never conflict with or replace packages in the > >> base Enterprise Linux distributions." > > > > Huh, I'm sorry I forgot that. I'll talk with the CentOS guys to see if I > > can include them in the CentOSplus repo. > > > > > > Regards, > > Marian > > _______________________________________________ > > epel-devel-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list -- Best regards, Marian Marinov
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