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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:16:01PM -0500, Jason Gilbert wrote:
> > For a developer who doesn 't need support and uses mysql-server, what
> > is the recommended distro as an upgrade to RHL 9 (which included
> > mysql-server)? Is the only solution to download the SRPM and
> > recompile? Seems a bit unnecessarilly inefficient.
>
> It depends on what level of support and lifecycle you want. You could
> run Fedora which I am assuming will include mysql-server. You have
> essentially no support and a short life cycle.
I guess I should have mentioned target deployment of RHEL.
> You could run Red Hat Professional Workstation, and add mysql-server
> yourself by either grabbing the srpm or getting the mysql sources and
> rebuilding, or by getting a binary rpm from someplace else (Fedora or
> other distros, or from the mysql site). You have a multi-year lifecyle.
Getting RPMS from mysql is probably the real solution here, since I will
need 4.x anyway, duh. I think it 's more the convenience of not having to pull
stuff from all over. I 'll have to setup my own yum repo anyway so I guess I 'm
really just making a mountain out of a mole hill. There 's nothing to see here,
move along:^)
jason
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I 'm not
sure about the former " - Albert Einstein
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