[debian-mysql] Managing switches between *-{server|client}-{core|}-x.x variants

[James Page]

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On 01/03/14 22:17, James Page wrote:
> On 01/03/14 18:59, Clint Byrum wrote:
>>>> If this makes sense to folk I'll take some time to apply and 
>>>> test this in full with the three variant we have in archive 
>>>> today.
>> It makes logical sense to me. I'm curious if we have precedent
>> in other packages to help us find the gotchyas in this strategy.
> 
> The only think I could think of that was similar was the 
> nova-compute-* pkgs:
> 
> Package: nova-compute-kvm Provides: nova-compute-hypervisor 
> Conflicts: nova-compute-hypervisor
> 
> But that does Provides/Conflicts which ensures, say, that 
> nova-compute-lxc would get bumped if you install nova-compute-kvm.
> 
> I was going to let this soak on list for a few days to see if
> anyone listening had any experience of this type of approach.

I've let this soak for 10 days or so; I've also done some testing to
see how this approach hangs together and it smokes OK from my perspective.

I've pushed commits to mysql-5.5 and mysql-5.6 repos to effect this
change; Otto is working on the mariadb-5.5 update as part of the next
point release.

Once we have this in place we can expose these as official virtual
packages so that:

  Depends: mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server

Is an effective dependency.

Cheers

James

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James Page
Technical Lead
Ubuntu Server Team
james.page at canonical.com
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