[Openstack-docs] Covering MariaDB in the installation guide

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 19:15:02 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> On 03/26/2014 07:09 PM, Matt Kassawara wrote:
> > Apparently RHEL 7 and Fedora 20 chose MariaDB over MySQL. In reference
> > to the following bug, how do we want to handle this situation in the
> > installation guide since it also supports versions of RHEL and Fedora
> > prior to MariaDB? I'm also concerned about use of "systemctl" over
> 
> Have a look how I handled it for openSUSE/SLES - here we have the same
> situatoin.
> 
> > "service" because we would need split Fedora out of existing "os"
> > conditionals which typically include RHEL/CentOS/Fedora.
> 
> Yeah, that will be more fun ;(
> 
> For openSUSE, we've extended the "old" SysV init scripts like chkconfig
> so that they work with systemd as well - thus a "service openstack-nova
> restart" gets translated on a systemd system to the "systemctl restart
> openstack-nova.service". Does Fedora do some similar or did they throw
> out this compatibility?

Fedora and RHEL7 beta do as well - I'd be surprised if any systemd-supporting distribution doesn't.

Thanks,

Steve



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