enable mariadb as an option

[Clint Byrum]

Default will be distro mysql, but we can set up a flavor option for mariadb and percona server.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Percona is available now, mariadb is still too difficult because of packaging weirdness.

[Ross Timson (rosstimson)]

Is this still being worked on?

What are the packaging issues mentioned as there seems to be official repos for Precise available?

I'm new to Juju so apologies if I'm missing something obvious here. More and more big players are switching to MariaDB (eg Wikipedia did recently) and I'd love to see this option added.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Excerpts from Ross Timson's message of 2013-04-29 09:46:32 UTC:
> Is this still being worked on?
>

Not to my knowledge, no.

> What are the packaging issues mentioned as there seems to be official
> repos for Precise available?
>

Percona seems to be more careful about dependencies and maintainer
scripts, so that one can go back to stock MySQL from Percona.

MariaDB's packaging produced an issue where I could not go back to stock
MySQL or to Percona Server from MariaDB.

Right now, I'm more convinced that charms need includes of some kind, so
that the 99% of code that the charms will share can be in one charm, and
then just include the slight differences for maria/percona/stock mysql.

> I'm new to Juju so apologies if I'm missing something obvious here.
> More and more big players are switching to MariaDB (eg Wikipedia did
> recently) and I'd love to see this option added.
>

You're welcome to dive in and try to solve this. For now, stock MySQL
and Percona are the only options.