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Published July 30th, 2006 by Jim O'Halloran

MySQL 5 on CentOS

I did a “yum update” on my CentOS box the other day and discovered MySQL 5 packages in the CentOS Plus repository! So if you’re after PHP 5 or MySQL 5 for your CentOS box enable the CentOSPlus repository as described in my earlier port. I’m using MySQL 5 on my laptop (FC5), and I’ll probably migrate my CentOS server to it eventually.

For now though, I’m not interested in re-testing everything that’s running on my server against a new MySQL, so I’d rather stick with version 4 as it ships with CentOS. I still want PHP5 from CentOSPlus though, but not MySQL5. To make this happen, I added the following line to the bottom of the [centosplus] section of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo…

exclude=mysql mysql-server mysql-client mysql-devel

This causes yum to ignore the named packages in the CentOSPlus repository. This works well for me so far. Later when I want to upgrade to MySQL 5 I’ll just need to remove that line (or comment it out).

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