On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:16:01PM -0500, Jason Gilbert wrote: > > For a developer who doesn't need support and uses mysql-server, what > > is the recommended distro as an upgrade to RHL 9 (which included > > mysql-server)? Is the only solution to download the SRPM and > > recompile? Seems a bit unnecessarilly inefficient. > > It depends on what level of support and lifecycle you want. You could > run Fedora which I am assuming will include mysql-server. You have > essentially no support and a short life cycle. I guess I should have mentioned target deployment of RHEL. > You could run Red Hat Professional Workstation, and add mysql-server > yourself by either grabbing the srpm or getting the mysql sources and > rebuilding, or by getting a binary rpm from someplace else (Fedora or > other distros, or from the mysql site). You have a multi-year lifecyle. Getting RPMS from mysql is probably the real solution here, since I will need 4.x anyway, duh. I think it's more the convenience of not having to pull stuff from all over. I'll have to setup my own yum repo anyway so I guess I'm really just making a mountain out of a mole hill. There's nothing to see here, move along:^) jason -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
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