Tomáš Pecsérke

:+1: I could work on that.

I already use these releases for quite some time now, and I'm quite content using it. We'll have to export at least 2 versions per image thou - they are...

:+1: I'd love to be able to take advantage of those.

Update on MariaDB 5.5.29: The word is the release is due to tomorrow. As for solution to the incompatible version problem: The problem is, that MariaDB client library depends on...

MariaDB 5.5.29 have been released yesterday evening. There is finally quantal repository available, too. I'm however still not sure, how we can avoid future problems with dependencies. Originally I thought...

Not entirely - MariaDB depends on MySQL package libmysqlclient18. That was source of problem. I was unable install libmysqlclient18-5.5.28 (it's included in MariaDB repo) because it was superseded by libmysqlclient18-5.5.29...

So today I've came accross bug report for this issue -the problem is exactly as I described it above. https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3882 Since it's still not fixed, I'm against merging mariaDB usage...

That's the thing - open PR to merge it where?

Installing MariaDB over existing MySQL (or even only some of it's libraries) is problematic. If you are installing lamp on machine with some desktop environment, it's highly probable, you have...

Great news: the guys from MariaDB Foundation fixed installing MariaDB over existing MySQL instance. I've tested it against Official Ubuntu Daily Cloud Release 12.10, Kubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.10 (Desktop)....