Bug 1185620

Summary:	Feature Request: Include JDBC drivers in mariadb
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	shreepads
Component:	mariadb	Assignee:	Tomas Repik <trepik>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	h1k6zn2m, hhorak, jdornak, jstanek, mmuzila, msrb, shreepads, trepik
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Description shreepads 2015-01-25 09:50:58 UTC

Description of problem:

The MariDB jdbc driver in not available in the Fedora 21 package repository. It needs to be downloaded separately from https://downloads.mariadb.org/client-java/ and installed.

As the JDBC driver is open source LGPL it should be included as an optional subpackage in mariadb. It is under active development.


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

mariadb   10.0.14-8.fc21


How reproducible:

Install mariadb mariadb-server mariadb-devel from the repository. Also pulls down mariadb-common, libs, but does not include the jdbc drivers.


Actual results:

The drivers are not available in the repository.


Expected results:

The driver should be available in the repository, ideally under a new mariadb-java-client subpackage.

A new mariadb-java-client subpackage is better as not everyone needs it and can then specify a dependency on OpenJDK for this subpackage.

This should install mariadb-java-client-n.n.n.jar and, optionally the mariadb-java-client-n.n.n-javadoc.jar file in the appropriate locations.

It is a Type 4 JDBC driver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDBC_driver#Type_4_Driver_-_Database-Protocol_Driver.28Pure_Java_Driver.29) so shouldn't need any other dependencies.


Additional info:

I've tried the current stable mariadb-java-client-1.1.8.jar with the OpenJDK and MariaDB versions straight from the Fedora repos and it works fine.

Comment 1 Jonathan Kamens 2015-05-26 08:28:58 UTC

For whatever reason -- I didn't dig -- in F22, mysql-connector-java does _not_ work for me in LibreOffice Base when attempting to connect to a MariaDB server (the class loads, but can't connect to the database), whereas the mariadb JDBC driver _does_ work, so it would seem all the more important to get this shipped and available for people to use.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2015-08-11 10:03:25 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 4 Jonathan Kamens 2015-11-04 11:07:27 UTC

Still missing in Fedora 22.

Comment 5 Tomas Repik 2015-12-15 07:14:53 UTC

I packaged the JDBC driver. Review request: 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291558

Comment 6 Honza Horak 2016-02-12 09:55:40 UTC

I think we can close this bug, since it is tracked in bug #1291558.