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Support for yum 'virtual provider', specifically 'mysql' on RHEL 7 #2109
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Affects mysql community cookbook: sous-chefs/mysql#234 |
Quoting from @adamhjk:
The mysql cookbook was actually fixed the other direction by pointing rhel7 at the mysql community packages and installing real mysql onto rhel7 (with a different cookbook supporting mariadb). Still we should probably support installing virtual packages, though, since a user can type |
this is fixed in #6540 |
With RHEL7 MariaDB became the default MySQL package when the 'mysql' package is required. (Reference on work that went on in Fedora -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB).
When executing chef-client with a basic recipe of 'package "mysql"' in local mode, this is the results on RHEL 7.0:
Yum commands showing how 'mysql' is provided:
It looks like it is resolved via the virtual provider feature in Yum as shown here:
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