Author: James Abernathy Date: To: dmo-discussion Subject: Re: mysql commands when using mariadb
On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM Christian Marillat
<marillat@???> wrote: >
> On 09 mars 2025 10:13, James Abernathy <jfabernathy@???> wrote:
>
> > I noticed when installing mythtv v35 on Trixie that some of the mysql
> > command used to work on mariadb, but are not allows now for some
> > reason I had to create a link in the /usr/bin/ directory:
> >
> > sudo ln -s mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql mysql_tzinfo_to_sql
>
> Bad idea as mysql_tzinfo_to_sql exist in the mariadb-client-compat
> package. 'ln -s' will fail is mariadb-client-compat is installed and
> probably break the mariadb-client-compat installation as overwriting
> symlink is problematic in Debian.
>
> Please remove the symlink and install mariadb-client-compat
>
> I've added mariadb-client-compat as dependency for the mythtv-common
> package for the next upload.
>
> Christian
>
