Translating theory to practice is never easy. Morgan gives us the right steps in a play environment to move from dev.mysql.com native MySQL rpm’s to the new MySQL yum repository. I thought I would try it out.
1. Confirming existing packages
A necessary step, however immediately I have more dependencies including Perl DBD (used in several utilities) including MHA.
$ sudo su - $ rpm -qa | grep -i mysql MySQL-devel-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64 MySQL-test-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64 MySQL-shared-compat-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64 MySQL-server-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64 perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-3.el6.x86_64 MySQL-client-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64 MySQL-embedded-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64 MySQL-shared-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64 mha4mysql-node-0.54-1.el5.noarch
A further trap in the more complex real-world environments, in my case the installation of Percona …
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