Percona 5.5 Installation Instructions are incorrect for devel package

[Edward Skaife]

The Percona-Server-devel package named in the Installing Percona Server 5.5 from Binaries section of the manual conflicts with the Percona-Server-client-55 package. However, the Percona-Server-devel-55 package does not, and this package appears to contain the required development tools/headers.

Documentation should be updated to reflect this.

I replicated this on a fresh CentOS 6 minimal installation, and included my terminal session illustrating the conflict, my resolution, and a list of all my installed packages so that if necessary, you can replicate it as well.

The relevant page in the manual is located here:
https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation.html

[Nilnandan Joshi (nilnandan-joshi)]

Hi Edward,

Can you please explain where exactly in that doc, you think it should be updated? If you are talking about below line,

"The Percona-Server-devel package contains the header files needed to compile software using the client library."

Then it's general information for devel package and we normally don't need to to specify 55/56 at the end.

[Edward Skaife (edward-skaife)]

Hello Nilnandan,

I suppose there are a couple of different ways to resolve this task: the documentation linked in my original post can replace all instances of "Percona-Server-devel" with "Percona-Server-devel-55". However, if it is the intention of Percona to have Percona-Server-devel point to the correct development package for all instances, then there will need to be changes in the packages and repositories. I linked my full BASH session in my original post illustrating the issue. Looking at my yum output, it appears that "Percona-Server-devel" links to the Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel-55-5.5.41-25.11.853.el6.x86_64, which according to yum conflicts with Percona-Server-client-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64.

I should note that I have observed this on both CentOS 6.7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.7.

I have included my terminal output above which illustrates the conflict, but I will again place it here:

[eskaife@ServerSimulator ~]$ sudo yum install Percona-Server-devel
[sudo] password for eskaife:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: linux.cc.lehigh.edu
 * extras: mirrors.chkhosting.com
 * updates: mirrors.usinternet.com
Package Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel is obsoleted by Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel-55, trying to install 1:Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel-55-5.5.41-25.11.853.el6.x86_64 instead
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel-55.x86_64 1:5.5.41-25.11.853.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Conflict: 1:Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel-55-5.5.41-25.11.853.el6.x86_64 conflicts mysql
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel-55 conflicts with Percona-Server-client-55-5.5.44-rel37.3.el6.x86_64
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

[Hrvoje Matijakovic (hrvojem)]

Hi Edward,

I've intended this as a more general reference for packages in both apt and yum repos. But I see this could lead to confusion, I'll update the docs to reference the correct package names. Thank you for reporting this.

[Hrvoje Matijakovic (hrvojem)]

https://github.com/percona/percona-server/pull/135

[Hrvoje Matijakovic (hrvojem)]

and https://github.com/percona/percona-server/pull/137

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-1645