Comments on: CentOS, CentOSPlus, and MySQL versions shipping there

By: byte

byte — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:36:35 +0000

Hmm, that is truly odd, that the tagged releases did not build on RHEL-4, seeing that we release packages for that very same platform. I’ll put this down on my copious todo list to investigate, thanks for the information

By: Johnny Hughes

Johnny Hughes — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:43:54 +0000

well … what I meant to really say was that the tagged version did not compile on centos-4 and pass all the tests without the couple patches that are added. In fact, they would not have compiled on RHEL-4 or CentOS-4 without those patches. I wonder how they were released with out them?

Also the other sources that you mention are caused because MySQL does not provide DOCS in the bitkeeper tree.

By: byte

byte — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:39:03 +0000

Hi Karanbir,

Its good to know there will be CentOS 5 packages available soon, in centosplus.

The MySQL Enterprise builds you provide, if based on an Enterprise tag, with no patches, will be exactly the same as what MySQL provides. The moment you add patches, naturally it is not the same any longer.

Is there a feature/capability comparison? No. There are changelogs online, but thats about it.

By: byte

byte — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:36:49 +0000

Hi Johnny,

The tarballs themselves, aren’t going to be available, not in the near future anyway.

The BitKeeper trees are MySQL. Enterprise and Community. Your version is a tag + some patches that are out of tree (as in not within that tag), so they are essentially *different*, no?

So, taking say, 5.0.54 and adding patches from bitkeeper, no matter what tag you pull it from, does not make it upstream 5.0.54, does it? Of course not, its now upstream + patches.

Thats what I was trying to explain, months ago…

By: Johnny Hughes

Johnny Hughes — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:08:56 +0000

If you would GIVE ME THE TAR BALLS, I WOULD USE THEM …

You guys said that the bit keeper trees ARE mysql enterprise, now they are not????

So now my version, which has your tagged 5.0.54 and a couple patches FROM your bitkeeper tree to fix bugs that should have NEVER got out the door.

WTF?????

By: Karanbir Singh

Karanbir Singh — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:05:13 +0000

Hi Colin,

Just wanted to add some more info here w.r.t the CentOS / MySQL rpms in CentOSPlus.

Firstly, I will be making available the newer MySQL builds in CentOS-5 within the next day or so ( keep an eye out for announcements ) – That should resolve the issue of these packages not being available on CentOS-5 as yet. We have had a fair few people ask for them already.

Secondly, I am quite interested in working out what the differences are in the MySQL Enterprise builds and what we provide in the CentOSPlus repositories. Where should I start looking ? Has anyone does a feature or capability comparison as yet ?