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[Bug 314116] Re: provide tarballs

 

Our dev and qa teams run db instances with more than one version of
mysql on one machine.

When upgrading production, it's much easier to fall back to an earlier
version when all you have to do is change a symlink, as opposed to
removing and installing several rpm or deb packages.

We also run a slave on new releases for awhile to build confidence.  As
you might imagine, this slave doesn't have a machine all to itself.

For further justification, though this doesn't apply to me, what about
slackware and gentoo?  Tarballz would serve those constituencies nicely.
Don't get me wrong, I use rpm and deb packages in most situations.  It's
just these outliers at the high end that aren't well served by rpm and
deb.

And if I may anticipate, a virtualized environment isn't for us just
yet.

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provide tarballs
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Status in OurDelta - Builds for MySQL: In Progress

Bug description:
Please provide tarballs in addition to the rpm and deb formats.

We currently use mysql's tarballs, and the lack thereof has made our transition to ourdelta more difficult than necessary.  We made a script to extract from rpm via rpm2cpio, but that's a hack -- the defaults are all off.

The rpm2cpio-based script is attached in case anybody else runs into this issues before official ourdelta tarballs become available.



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