Description:
On Fedora 44:
mariadb-connector-c-config
- provides /etc/my.cnf
mariadb-connector-c
- provides libmariadb.so.3 (needed by various packages)
- requires mariadb-connector-c-config (same version)
mysql-community-server-0:26.7.0-10.fc44.x86_64
- obsoletes mariadb-connector-c-config
This leads to the issue that dnf tries to update mariadb-connector-c, which needs mariadb-connector-c-config, which then is replaced by mysql-community-server, but then doesn't provide what mariadb-connector-c needs/expects.
This leads to things like this:
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# dnf update
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Problem: installed package mariadb-connector-c-3.4.9-2.fc44.x86_64 requires mariadb-connector-c-config = 3.4.9-2.fc44, but none of the providers can be installed
- package mysql-community-server-26.7.0-10.fc44.x86_64 from mysql-innovation-community obsoletes mariadb-connector-c-config provided by mariadb-connector-c-config-3.4.9-2.fc44.noarch from @System
- package mysql-community-server-26.7.0-10.fc44.x86_64 from mysql-innovation-community obsoletes mariadb-connector-c-config provided by mariadb-connector-c-config-3.4.9-2.fc44.noarch from updates
- cannot install the best update candidate for package mariadb-connector-c-config-3.4.9-2.fc44.noarch
- cannot install the best update candidate for package mariadb-connector-c-3.4.9-2.fc44.x86_64
Nothing to do.
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Removing mariadb-connector-c leads to the remove of many packages (libreoffice-*, qt6-*, sysbench, lldpd, etc)
How to repeat:
Create a Fedora 44 container:
podman run --rm -it fedora:44
Run this:
rpm -i https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql97-community-release-fc44-1.noarch.rpm
dnf makecache
dnf install -y mysql-community-client lldpd
dnf update
The `dnf update` step shows the problems as described in the description.
Note that this happens with both the default 9.7 repository and the innovation repository.
Suggested fix:
Probably try to follow what the MySQL and MariaDB packages from Fedora do, which is to not replace mariadb-connector-c-config and not ship a /etc/my.cnf
[root@d130262cda9b /]# rpm -ql mysql9.7-server | grep cnf
/etc/my.cnf.d/mysql-server.cnf
[root@d130262cda9b /]# rpm -q --obsoletes mysql9.7-server
[root@d130262cda9b /]# rpm -qf /etc/my.cnf
mariadb-connector-c-config-3.4.9-2.fc44.noarch
