On Monday 06 June 2005 09:27 am, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:02:49 -0500 > From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: mysql version in FC3 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1118073769.10109.29.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 02:21, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > This is a little confusing to me. My tutorial is all based on MySQL > > > ver. >4. > > > > FC3 included MySQL v3.x because of licensing issues with v4.x that have > > since been resolved. However, since a large number of packages in FC3 > > are built against MySQL v3.x, updating to v4.x in FC3 would require > > updating many, many packages, potentially causing a lot of problems. > > There are client compatibility libraries that are supposed to keep the > old stuff happy with the newer server version, but waiting for FC4 is > probably the easiest approach. Mysql4 is also included in RHEL4 (and > thus the free clones like Centos4). Those might be a better choice for > a production server. > > -- > Les Mikesell > les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MySQL 4 works fine in FC3, The few dependency problems that were there were solved with the compatibility library. I downloaded MySQL from their site and had no problems at all. the programs using MySQL that I have are php scripts (osCommerce and others) worked just fine, along with the apache modules for mySQL. I can really see no issues for upgrading to MySQL 4 in FC3 for a production enviornment.
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