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[Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 14.02.2018 um 12:56 schrieb Florent B:
> On 14/02/2018 12:49, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> > Hi, Florent!
> >
> > On Feb 14, Florent B wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Wouldn't be nice to have a metapackage mariadb-backup in Debian
> > > repository, that depends on the current best version
> > > (mariadb-backup-10.2, etc..) ?
> > >
> > > Like "mariadb-server" package in fact.
> > Yes, I guess.
> > It'll be consistent with what we do with the server.
> >
> > Of course, if you also have a solution how to reduce the number of
> > packages, that'd be perfect :)
> >
> > Hmm, how about that?
> > We rename the following packages to remove "-10.1" at the end.
> >
> >    mariadb-connect-engine-10.1
> >    mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.1
> >    mariadb-cracklib-password-check-10.1
> >    mariadb-gssapi-server-10.1
> >    mariadb-gssapi-client-10.1
> >    mariadb-backup-10.1
> >
> > This way the server package will specify the version (either
> > "mariadb-server-10.1" for 10.1 or "mariadb-server" for the latest)
> > and everything else will follow.
> >
> > Looks logical and doesn't increase the number of packages (!!!).
> > But I need to try whether it'll actually work in Debian :)
>
> Wow ! Someone understood what I mean. Thank you a lot Sergei, I though I
> was crazy seeing other people's answers
well, i don't get why there needs to be a metapackage at all

http://yum.mariadb.org/10.1/rhel6-x86/rpms/
http://yum.mariadb.org/10.2/rhel6-x86/rpms/

these are different repos and you have either 10.1 or 10.2 enabled

whatever packages in whatever versions are there, the update manager 
without mention a version explicit takes the one with the highest number 
independent of a new install or update

%package           server
Summary:           The MariaDB server and related files
Requires:          %{name} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}, 
%{name}-libs = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
Requires:          sh-utils
Requires(pre):     shadow-utils
Provides:          mysql-server = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}, 
mysql-server%{?_isa} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes:         mysql-server, community-mysql-server
%description       server

"dnf install mysql-server" == "dnf install mariadb-server" == "dnf 
install community-mysql-server"

why? because the Provides/Obsoletes in my spec say so