While I was playing with MySQL I realized that most of the problems users can run into are caused by using non-distribution configuration file for MySQL. RPM wouldn’t overwrite original file if user has manually altered it. And it can became source of problems for users. Sometimes it may not be obvious that they should merge thier configuration file with distribution one to fix errors. While I was discussing this with my colleagues, we came to the conclusion that some tool for managing configuration files may be handy. Something what will warn users about possible conflicts, help them solve them and maybe more.

Some of you may already notice, that in Build Service, there are already available rpms for new MySQL 5.1. Currently I think that in openSUSE 11.2 will be some 5.1 version of MySQL. So it may be interesting to tell our users what will change and how. Most of these changes are reflected in README.SuSE, but frankly – who reads READMEs?

Changes

Plugins

One of the new features in MySQL 5.1 is support for plugins. So some of the storage engines will be now shipped like that. Following plugins will be available:

This is a first entry on my new blog. Maybe the first statement can be just “First post!!!”, but I want to tell my potential readers why this blog was founded, what’s its purpose and what you can hopefully find here in the future.

The original reason to create this blog was to have some place where I can post my ideas about my work. I’m currently working as a package maintainer in SuSE and sometimes I’m facing some things that I think people should know about. But who reads mailing lists nowadays? If I’ll be good at blogging, I’ll be googleable and therefore these idea may actually find some audience. Well, other thing is that my first goal is to get aggregated on Planet SuSE, once this site will be finished enough.