[openstack-dev] [TripleO] Use MariaDB by default on Fedora

James Slagle james.slagle at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 20:49:58 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from James Slagle's message of 2014-06-27 12:59:36 -0700:
>> Things are a bit confusing right now, especially with what's been
>> proposed.  Let me try and clarify (even if just for my own sake).
>>
>> Currently the choices offered are:
>>
>> 1. mysql percona with the percona tarball
>
> Percona Xtradb Cluster, not "mysql percona"
>
>> 2. mariadb galera with mariadb.org packages
>> 3. mariadb galera with rdo packages
>>
>> And, we're proposing to add
>>
>> 4. mysql percona with percona packages: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/90134
>> 5. mariadb galera with fedora packages https://review.openstack.org/#/c/102815/
>>
>> 4 replaces 1, but only for Ubuntu/Debian, it doesn't work on Fedora/RH
>> 5 replaces 3 (neither of which work on Ubuntu/Debian, obviously)
>>
>> Do we still need 1? Fedora/RH + percona tarball.  I personally don't think so.
>>
>> Do we still need 2? Fedora/RH or Ubuntu/Debian with galera packages
>> from maraidb.org. For the Fedora/RH case, I doubt it, people will just
>> use 5.
>>
>> 3 will be gone (replaced by 5).
>>
>> So, yes, I'd like to see 5 as the default for Fedora/RH and 4 as the
>> default for Ubuntu/Debian, and both those tested in CI. And get rid of
>> (or deprecate) 1-3.
>>
>
> I'm actually more confused now than before I read this. The use of
> numbers is just making my head spin.

There are 5 choices, some of which are not totally clear.  Hence the
need to clean things up.

>
> It can be stated this way I think:
>
> On RPM systems, use MariaDB Galera packages.
>     If packages are in the distro, use distro packages. If packages are
>     not in the distro, use RDO packages.

There won't be a need to install from the RDO repositories. Mariadb
galera packages are in the main Fedora package repositories, and for
RHEL, they're in the epel repositories.

>
> On DEB systems, use Percona XtraDB Cluster packages.
>     If packages are in the distro, use distro packages. If packages are
>     not in the distro, use upstream packages.
>
> If anything doesn't match those principles, it is a bug.

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-- James Slagle
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