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On 06/26/2014 11:11 AM, Jan Provaznik wrote:
> On 06/25/2014 06:58 PM, Giulio Fidente wrote:
>> On 06/16/2014 11:14 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Gregory Haynes's message of 2014-06-16 14:04:19 -0700:
>>>> Excerpts from Jan Provazník's message of 2014-06-16 20:28:29 +0000:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> MariaDB is now included in Fedora repositories, this makes it
>>>>> easier to
>>>>> install and more stable option for Fedora installations. Currently
>>>>> MariaDB can be used by including mariadb (use mariadb.org pkgs) or
>>>>> mariadb-rdo (use redhat RDO pkgs) element when building an image. What
>>>>> do you think about using MariaDB as default option for Fedora when
>>>>> running devtest scripts?
>>>
>>> (first, I believe Jan means that MariaDB _Galera_ is now in Fedora)
>>
>> I think so too.
>>
>>>> Id like to give this a try. This does start to change us from being a
>>>> deployment of openstck to being a deployment per distro but IMO thats a
>>>> reasonable position.
>>>>
>>>> Id also like to propose that if we decide against doing this then these
>>>> elements should not live in tripleo-image-elements.
>>>
>>> I'm not so sure I agree. We have lio and tgt because lio is on RHEL but
>>> everywhere else is still using tgt IIRC.
>>>
>>> However, I also am not so sure that it is actually a good idea for
>>> people
>>> to ship on MariaDB since it is not in the gate. As it diverges from
>>> MySQL
>>> (starting in earnest with 10.x), there will undoubtedly be subtle issues
>>> that arise. So I'd say having MariaDB get tested along with Fedora will
>>> actually improve those users' test coverage, which is a good thing.
>>
>> I am favourable to the idea of switching to mariadb for fedora based
>> distros.
>>
>> Currently the default mysql element seems to be switching [1], yet for
>> ubuntu/debian only, from the percona provided binary tarball of mysql to
>> the percona provided packaged version of mysql.
>>
>> In theory we could further update it to use percona provided packages of
>> mysql on fedora too but I'm not sure there is much interest in using
>> that combination where people gets mariadb and galera from the official
>> repos.
>>
>
> IIRC fedora packages for percona xtradb cluster are not provided (unless
> something has changed recently).

I see, so on fedora it will be definitely easier and safer to just use 
the mariadb/galera packages provided in the official repo ... and this 
further reinforces my idea that it is the best option to use that by 
default for fedora

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