Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Yes, I know about the licensing issues. I have a different question. Is there any "Red Hat approved" specfile I can use to build my own mysql4 packages such that I don't have compatibility problems if/when Red Hat does begin shipping mysql4? I know that I can get packages from mysql.com, but they are different in various ways and this has caused problems for me in the past.
I know Red Hat has mysql4 packages internally. They even appeared in
Rawhide at one point, and foolish me neglected to anticipate the
continued licensing problems and didn't grab them.
I doubt there's such a thing as a "RedHat-approved" spec file, since RedHat doesn't ship MySQL 4.x and may never (unless the licensing issues as reworked). If you really need MySQL 4.x, I would just build it manually or use the MySQL-provided spec file, and expect that at some point in the future you may need to dump your DB into a version-neutral format in order to re-import it into a RedHat-built MySQL 4.x.
Jeremy
