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Remove 'community-mysql' names


Summary

Remove all usage of community-mysql* names in Fedora packages.
This change is trivial, but I’m making it to increase its visibility.

Owner

Current status


Change Owner status updates:

  • The change landed into Rawhide and I tested it.
  • The change is now functionally complete.

Detailed Description

The implementation of the MySQL databases software in Fedora was provided by the 'community-mysql' package.
This is no longer the case. Now the versioned package layout is used, and the MySQL implementations are provided by packages such as mysql8.0, mysql8.4 etc., from which the 'distribution default' version also provides the community-mysql* virtual names, for backward compatibility.

The goal of this change is to completely remove all usage of the community-mysql* names from the distribution.

The names provided are:

  • community-mysql
  • community-mysql-libs
  • community-mysql-config
  • community-mysql-common
  • community-mysql-errmsg
  • community-mysql-server
  • community-mysql-devel
  • community-mysql-test

The names are not positively used by any other package. 

# for NAME in community-mysql community-mysql-libs community-mysql-config community-mysql-common community-mysql-errmsg community-mysql-server community-mysql-devel community-mysql-test; do echo $NAME; \
  dnf repoquery -q --repo=rawhide --repo=rawhide-source --repo=rpmfusion-free --repo=rpmfusion-free-source --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-source --whatrequires $NAME; \
  dnf repoquery -q --repo=rawhide --repo=rawhide-source --repo=rpmfusion-free --repo=rpmfusion-free-source --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-source --whatrecommends $NAME; \
  dnf repoquery -q --repo=rawhide --repo=rawhide-source --repo=rpmfusion-free --repo=rpmfusion-free-source --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-source --whatsuggests $NAME; \
echo " " ; done


Some of these names are negatively used by other packages I maintain: 

# for NAME in community-mysql community-mysql-libs community-mysql-config community-mysql-common community-mysql-errmsg community-mysql-server community-mysql-devel community-mysql-test; do echo $NAME; \
 dnf repoquery -q --repo=rawhide --repo=rawhide-source --repo=rpmfusion-free --repo=rpmfusion-free-source --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree --repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-source --whatconflicts $NAME; \
echo " " ; done

community-mysql
mariadb-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.x86_64
mariadb-server-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.x86_64
mariadb11.8-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.x86_64
mariadb11.8-server-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.x86_64

community-mysql-libs

community-mysql-config

community-mysql-common

community-mysql-errmsg

community-mysql-server
mariadb-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.x86_64
mariadb-server-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.x86_64
mariadb-server-utils-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.noarch
mariadb11.8-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.x86_64
mariadb11.8-server-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.x86_64
mariadb11.8-server-utils-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.noarch

community-mysql-devel
mariadb-connector-c-devel-0:3.4.5-2.fc43.i686
mariadb-connector-c-devel-0:3.4.5-2.fc43.x86_64
mariadb-devel-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.i686
mariadb-devel-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.x86_64
mariadb11.8-devel-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.i686
mariadb11.8-devel-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.x86_64

community-mysql-test
mariadb-test-3:10.11.13-9.fc43.x86_64
mariadb11.8-test-3:11.8.3-2.fc43.x86_64

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

Clean up the old unused names.
Remove packaging burden.
Make the usage less complicated.

Scope

  • Proposal owners: remove all usage of the community-mysql* names from the distribution.
  • Other developers: N/A
  • Release engineering: N/A
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: N/A

Upgrade/compatibility impact

User won't be able to use the deprecated community-mysql* names anymore.

How To Test

Check repositories that no package in the distribution have any RPM relationship with any of the 'community-mysql*' names.

User Experience

User won't be able to use the deprecated community-mysql* names anymore.

Dependencies

Packages:

Contingency Plan

Revert to keep providing the community-mysql* names, but still remove all other usage.

  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? No

Documentation

N/A

Release Notes

Not necessary.

Can contain brief: Old, obsolete, "community-mysql*" virtual provides were removed from the distribution.


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