Hi, Over the past couple of weeks, I have converted a couple of boxes from mysql to mariadb, citing concerns with oracle's irresponsible handling of mysql. (There was another no-authentication exploit fixed in the massive patch cluster last week.)
I have come up with a method of upgrading from mysql 5.5 to mariadb 5.5, but it's kinda clunky and ugly, and I was wondering if anyone had a better way. This is the procedure I have developed over the two or three times I have done (or tried) it. 1. Set up /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list: # MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2013-04-08 22:43 UTC # http://mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/ deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/debian wheezy main deb-src http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/5.5/debian wheezy main Note that this is from the mariadb site, as are the debs. 2. Set up /etc/apt/preferences.d/mariadb: Package: * Pin: origin ftp.osuosl.org Pin-Priority: 1000 I'm sure the pinning is probably not optimal, but it worked in this case... 3. You then have to download the following debs libmariadbclient18_5.5.30-mariadb1~wheezy_i386.deb libmariadbd-dev_5.5.30-mariadb1~wheezy_i386.deb libmysqlclient18_5.5.30-mariadb1~wheezy_i386.deb mariadb-common_5.5.30-mariadb1~wheezy_all.deb These debs have to be installed using dpkg, because for whatever reason, the libmysqlclient18 deb from mariadb will not install via apt-get install, and I generally try not to force anything. So I download and dpkg -i them, then I am able to apt-get install the rest, in this particular case, libmariadbclient-dev libmariadbclient18 libmariadbd-dev libmysqlclient18 mariadb-client-5.5 mariadb-client-core-5.5 mariadb-common mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-server-core-5.5 So does anyone see any way to make my installs less clunky? Thanks, --b
