[CentOS-announce] Announcing release for MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL

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I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of versions 5.5 and

5.6 of the MySQL on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64, delivered via a Software

Collection (SCL) built by the SCLo Special Interest Group

(https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo).

 

QuickStart

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You can get started in three easy steps (example of MySQL 5.6):

$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl

$ sudo yum install rh-mysql56

$ scl enable rh-mysql56 bash

 

At this point you should be able to use MySQL just as a normal

application. An examples of commands run might be:

$ service rh-mysql56-mysqld start

$ mysql

 

In order to view the individual components included in this collection,

including additional subpackages plugins, you can run:

$ sudo yum list rh-mysql56\*

 

About Software Collections

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Software Collections give you the power to build, install, and use

multiple versions of software on the same system, without affecting

system-wide installed packages. Each collection is delivered as a group

of RPMs, with the grouping being done using the name of the collection

as a prefix of all packages that are part of the software collection.

 

The collection rh-mysql56 delivers version 5.6 of the MySQL server (with

daemon called rh-mysql56-mysqld) and related client tools. The

collection mysql55 delivers version 5.5 of the MySQL server (with daemon

called mysql55-mysqld) and related client tools.

 

Both the collections include no client library libmysqlclient.so and

client applications are advised to use the client library available in

mysql-libs package from base system.

 

For more on the MySQL, see https://www.mysql.com.

 

The SCLo SIG in CentOS

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The Software Collections SIG group is an open community group

co-ordinating the development of the SCL technology, and helping curate

a reference set of collections. In addition to the MySQL collections

being released here, we also build and deliver other databases, web

servers, and language stacks including multiple versions of MariaDB,

PostgreSQL, MongoDB Apache HTTP Server, NodeJS, Ruby, Python and others.

 

Software Collections SIG release was announced at

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-October/021446.html

 

You can learn more about Software Collections concepts at:

http://softwarecollections.org

You can find information on the SIG at

https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo ; this includes howto

get involved and help with the effort.

 

We meet every second Wednesday at 16:00 UTC in #centos-devel (ref:

https://www.centos.org/community/calendar), for an informal open forum

open to anyone who might have comments, concerns or wants to get started

with SCL's in CentOS.

 

Enjoy!

 

Honza

SCLo SIG member

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