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[Rich Prohaska <prohaska7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Suppose that we have a RHEL5 machine running and we want to install
MariaDB on it.  Unfortunately, it conflicts with files installed by
the mysql package.

# rpm -i MariaDB-5.5.28a-centos5-x86_64-common.rpm
warning: MariaDB-5.5.28a-centos5-x86_64-common.rpm: Header V3 DSA
signature: NOKEY, key ID 1bb943db
	file /etc/my.cnf from install of MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64
conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64
	file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml from install of
MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64
	file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1250.xml from install of
MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64
	file /usr/share/mysql/charsets/cp1251.xml from install of
MariaDB-common-5.5.28a-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.x86_64

Unfortunately, a lot of other packages require the mysql package.
What is a good approach to solving this problem?

Thanks