MySQL Bugs: #83610: Cluster 7.5.4 release for Windows/Linux/Solaris but Solaris packages don't exist

Bug #83610	Cluster 7.5.4 release for Windows/Linux/Solaris but Solaris packages don't exist
Submitted:	29 Oct 2016 20:02	Modified:	23 Nov 2016 18:26
Reporter:	Dennis Clarke	Email Updates:
Status:	Unsupported	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Cluster: Packaging	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	7.5.4	OS:	Solaris (10 SPARC)
Assigned to:	MySQL Verification Team	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
As usual there is a release of MySQL which does not exist as packages for
Solaris 10 or even Solaris 11. The 7.4.13 cluster package exists and this
is good but 7.5.4 was released and announced for Windows and Linux and 
Solaris but the Solaris packages do not exist. At all.

This is similar to the MySQL 5.7.x releases which do not exist for Solaris 10.

see https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=83400

Also there has been no follow up of any value to that bugid.

How to repeat:
Attempt to download packages for MySQL 5.7 or MySQL Cluster 7.5.4 for Solaris SPARC hardware. Specifically Solaris 10 SPARC.

Suggested fix:
Create the packages as per usual for Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 otherwise
customers have more reasons to drop SPARC and drop Solaris.

Hi,

SOLARIS & SPARC are out there. For example:

http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-Cluster-7.5/mysql-cluster-gpl-7.5.4-solaris11-spa...

That's Solaris 11, as for Solaris 10, MCCGE 7.5.x is based on MySQL Server 5.7.x and MySQL Server 5.7.x does not support Solaris 10 (as you can see on our supported platform matrix: https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/database.html )

kind regards
Bogdan Kecman

The problem is trivial and simple : Oracle has begin the slow slide to drop
support for old and very stable Solaris 10. The evidence is showing. Your 
release code for MySQL 5.7 is not in any way non-portable and it could very
well be compiled on Solaris 10. However, you ( I mean Oracle people ) simply
and bluntly choose to not support your own operating system. It is that
simple.

    See https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=83400

This is a blunt force trivial approach and exactly what Oracle should NOT be
doing when trying to keep the SPARC market alive. No one is going to leap 
into a new M7 based server stack from their very safe Solaris 10 world without
a transition. However your sales and marketing people most likely know this
by now.