Try installing MariaDB instead of MySQL. It is a drop-in replacement and the version available in CentOS 7 is recent enough to run modern MediaWiki once you enable the MariaDB yum repo.
> On Dec 22, 2018, at 9:44 AM, John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I hate to be a downer (I’m normally the one complaining about said updates > breaking stuf$ but realistically major version bumps are needed. Ubuntu > 14.04 is almost 5 years old and only has 4 more months of support. MySQL > 5.5.x went EOL 3 years ago. You want to push support past that? CentOS to > my knowledge is the only major distro with issues supporting newer versions > of mediawiki. Mediawiki provides support for their LTS releases for 3 > years, and releases them about every two years. Forcing mediawiki devs to > keep the same requirements for 6+ years is not reasonable. I will also note > that if CentOS is shipping with mediawiki 1.21 they are doing it wrong that > branch is 6+ years old. > >> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:17 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We use CentOS 7. Red Hat supplies antique software. It offers Media >> wiki 1.21, if I recall correctly. It is what it is. We had to take on >> maintenance of Mediawiki because we wanted to offer newer features >> users. Skins and extensions sometimes need something newer than what >> the platform provides. >> >> We've managed to update Apache, Python and PHP using SCL >> (https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL). >> However, we cannot get the MySQL update to work. We are stuck at MySQL >> 5.5.60. MySQL 5.5.60 was released April 2018. >> >> We can't upgrade to to MW 1.31 due to CentOS's MySQL. We tried to >> install MW 1.31 but maintenance/update.sh died when trying to update >> the database. We had to go to backup and restore the installation. >> >> It is not just CentOS. Other OSes, like Ubuntu 14 LTS, are boxing >> users. For example Ubuntu 14 provides MySQL 5.5.62 >> (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mysql-server). MySQL >> 5.5.62 was released October 2018. >> >> Earlier I said "We've managed to update Apache, Python and PHP...". >> SCL does not offer Composer. Composer is an entirely new set of >> hardships. SCL probably does not offer Composer because dev tools have >> no business being on a production server. While you may think >> 'composer update' is easy, it took us a day and a half to work around >> all the problems and exceptions. >> >> Please consider lowering the MySQL requirements. Most helpful would be >> to lower and freeze all requirements for the next 3 or 5 years. A >> requirements freeze would allow us (and other users) to upgrade >> Mediawiki without the hassles and aggravations. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
