How To Update MySQL With CentOS 6 In Most Unintrusive Way – In Regard To Perl And PHP Packages
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Dear fellow CentOS users,
for my few hobby projects (web games + forums) I have been using CentOS 5
(then 6) with Drupal and PostgreSQL plus few custom PHP and Perl scripts written by mysef.
Since PostgreSQL version delivered with CentOS package has been a bit dated, I always used the PGDG packages:
# rpm -qa | grep -i pgdg
pgdg-CentOS93-9.3-1.noarch
PostgreSQL93-9.3.5-1PGDG.rhel6.i686
PostgreSQL93-libs-9.3.5-1PGDG.rhel6.i686
PostgreSQL93-server-9.3.5-1PGDG.rhel6.i686
As a web developer this has been a very pleasant experience, since (by some great magic) all the other CentOS packages (like php-pgsql and perl-DBD-Pg)
just worked with the PGDG packages.
Now I have decided to switch to WordPress for my new projects and am
(sadly) forced to switch the database too:
I have to use MySQL or MariaDB with CentOS 6.5.
So my question is: if anybody can recommend a similarly comfortable package repository for MySQL/MariaDB – which wouldn’t mess up any other CentOS
packages and which would update itself (with “yum update”).
And please do not suggest something like Fedora or EPEL repositories, because other than for MySQL/MariaDB I would like not to add any additional packages to have my server as “stable” as possible.
Thank you for any hints Alex
3 thoughts on - How To Update MySQL With CentOS 6 In Most Unintrusive Way – In Regard To Perl And PHP Packages
Hi Alex,
MariaDB itself has RHEL/CentOS repos:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/documentation/getting-started/getting-installing-and-upgrading-mariadb/mariadb-binary-packages/installing-mariadb-rpm-files/installing-mariadb-with-yum/
But you could limit EPEL repo to only include MariaDB packages and deps with
‘includepkgs=’ directive in the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo config file, like
[epel]
… default stuff …
includepkgs=MariaDB-* some-deps-package
See example here:
http://wiki.CentOS.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus
Regards, Martin
If you are making changes, why not just move to CentOS7 which will include reasonably current packages?
I wouldn’t lump fedora and EPEL in the same sentence like that. There is very little risk from adding packages from EPEL. On the other hand, because they have a policy of not overwriting base packages, you won’t find a newer mysql package there.
check out the SCL:
http://wiki.CentOS.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL
Documentation on this repo:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/1/html-single/1.0_Release_Notes/index.html