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[Honza Horak <hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/04/2014 05:17 PM, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> Hi, Honza!
>
> On Sep 03, Honza Horak wrote:
> > in Fedora, we're about to package mariadb-native-client, which we'd like
> > to utilize in Fedora as much as possible since using this piece of
> > software we can break the dependency on whole mariadb server package and
> > thus make the base system more compact.
>
> Hm, does libmysqlclient depend on the server package?
> Why would it?

Not really, I'm not considering the resulting binary RPMs, but 
components of the distro including sources as a whole. What I meant was 
that if anybody needs to e.g. build a mariadb connector for ruby, he 
needs to pull libmysqlclient and this one is built from 40MB large srpm 
of mariadb, which brings unnecessary complexity (rebases of whole server 
are more frequent, require more work to package them etc.) Having just 
tiny libmysqlclient would be much better for smaller core system.

> > However, since mariadb.org does not provide RPMs yet, I'm wondering
> > what would be the best name for such RPM package. The tar ball is
> > called mariadb_client.tar.gz but the project is called
> > mariadb-native-client on launchpad, which I like more btw. because it
> > differs more from mariadb-client package (which is actually a
> > subpackage of mariadb).
>
> In our packages mariadb-client is the package with the tools, the
> library is in mariadb-shared.
>
> And the project is called mariadb/connector-c on github, so don't put
> too much weight on the project name.

Right, we only want to follow Fedora guidelines that tell us to pay 
attention for picking up a proper name.

> > So, is mariadb-native-client a good choice or is there a better one?
>
> How are packages with shared libraries usually named on Fedora?

Well, there is not only one pattern, but most common is either a 
subpackage with shared libraries called foo-libs or a pure library 
package called libfoo.

> In our packaging we alias MariaDB-shared to mariadb-libs, so, I suppose
> xxx-libs is what you usually use. Then I'd suggest mariadb-native-libs
> or mariadb-lgpl-libs or something like that.

Personally, I do not like the license name in the name very much, but 
mariadb-native-libs or mariadb-connector-c sound fine.

Thanks for the ideas.

Honza