Thanks to the efforts of the Debian HA Maintainers team, the complete Pacemaker cluster stack is now available in Debian GNU/Linux. Packages are currently included only in Debian unstable (“sid“), but we expect them to make their way into squeeze (and lenny, via backports.org) relatively soon.
See the following links in the Debian package database for details:
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Gentoo
It started with Brian Evans’ github
repository, some good instructions on the mailing list for
Building MariaDB on Gentoo, to a request for packaging, and guess what? Its now
officially in Gentoo! Thanks Brian, and
Robin Johnson!
SPARC builds – Debian, Solaris
Mark has now got a MariaDB category on his blog and the
interesting things for you to grab are: …
Last month I spent two days in Belgium, after I got invited to the MySQL distro meeting. It was a non-public meeting with some people from Sun Microsystems and MySQL maintainers from different Linux distributions. It took place directly after FOSDEM (which I unfortunately could not attend due to personal reasons) at the Sun Microsystems Belgium office in Brussels. It was great to meet with Mathias Gug from the Ubuntu Server team in person. He had some really good ideas on how we could reduce the differences between MySQL in Debian and Ubuntu in the future. As a consequence, Debian will soon switch from Subversion to …
[Read more]Last month I spent two days in Belgium, after I got invited to the MySQL distro meeting. It was a non-public meeting with some people from Sun Microsystems and MySQL maintainers from different Linux distributions. It took place directly after FOSDEM (which I unfortunately could not attend due to personal reasons) at the Sun Microsystems Belgium office in Brussels. It was great to meet with Mathias Gug from the Ubuntu Server team in person. He had some really good ideas on how we could reduce the differences between MySQL in Debian and Ubuntu in the future. As a consequence, Debian will soon switch from Subversion to Bazaar for maintenance of …
[Read more]Today I ran into my first MySQL binlog race condition: The initial problem was quite simple: A typical MySQL master->slave setup with heavy load on the master and nearly no load on the slave, which only serves as a hot … Weiterlesen →
The aims of this kind of blog post is simple – I want to help keep the masses informed as to what’s happening with MariaDB, as a whole. There is a community growing, and MariaDB is a community project, not necessarily a Monty Program Ab baby (and we’re clear on this distinction: think of it like Canonical/Ubuntu). So, think of it as such that I’m sharing the good news, and summarising what’s been happening, to save you time.
MariaDB added to the Debian/Ubuntu wishlists
One of MariaDB’s goals is that it should be easily available for
download. While we provide binaries and source at the MariaDB download page, we would love to see
the binaries sitting in Linux distributions. So it is definitely
good to see that it is on …
How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny
mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Lenny server.
One of the things that I am really happy about in MariaDB is that we have our releases available as apt (and yum for Centos) repositories. This is largely thanks to being able to build this on the OurDelta package build infrastructure (which again builds on things like the Debian packaging scripts for MySQL).
Something like the Debian apt-get package system
(which is also used by Ubuntu) is one of the major innovations in
the Free Software world in my opinion. Debian has spent many
years refining this system to where it is today. Want to run the
mysql client, but it isn't installed? Just try to run it on your
local Ubuntu host:
$ mysql
The program 'mysql' can be found in the following packages:
* mysql-client-5.0
* mysql-client-5.1
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
-bash: mysql: command not found
Installing …
[Read more]DRBD has entered a new phase. After being developed out of tree for 9 years, and after an extended review and streamlining phase since March, Phil submitted DRBD to be merged into 2.6.32 release of the Linux mainline kernel. The submission was accepted by block layer maintainer Jens Axboe, who merged DRBD in September, then deferred to the 2.6.33 merge window, and this morning Linus …
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Due to a bug in britney, the Debian testing migration tool, MySQL is currently not
available in testing. The issue is known and being worked on
already, and it is documented in the Debian bug tracking
system.
Update: Meanwhile the issue was fixed, MySQL is available in
testing again.