Bug 1128707

Summary:	rebase mysql to something more recent
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Gerrit Slomma <gerrit.slomma>
Component:	mysql	Assignee:	Honza Horak <hhorak>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Version:	6.5	CC:	byte, databases-maint
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Rebase
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Description Gerrit Slomma 2014-08-11 11:38:53 UTC

Description of problem:

mysql currently is of version 5.1, this version is EOL upstream.
see link: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/
No security patches would be issued for this release in the future.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

mysql-5.1.73-3.el6_5

How reproducible:

yum list mysql*

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum list mysql*
2. watch for mysql-packages
3. notice only 5.1-packages there

Actual results:

only packages flagged with version number 5.1 present

Expected results:

mysql in version 5.5 present as on RHEL 5.10 or on RHEL 7.0 - whereas there it is mariadb albeit in version 5.5, too.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Honza Horak 2014-08-20 14:44:21 UTC

MySQL 5.5 is unfortunately not compatible with 5.1, so upgrading is not possible withing RHEL-6. MariaDB 5.5 is included in RHEL-7 then.

Howerver, MySQL 5.5, as well as MariaDB 5.5, are now available as part of Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) V1.0, now V1.1 is also released.  It is included as part of most RHEL subscriptions.

See http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/6/red-hat-software-collections-1.0-beta-now-available for details.