Re: p5-DBD-mysql and p5-DBD-MariaDB: update has caused serious breakage

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:

> * On 2025-09-19 at 19:30 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>>I wonder if it's really necessary to exclude MariaDB from p5-DBD-mysql.
>>If so that seems like a real Mess.pm for upstreams to have such a flag
>>day.
>
> I've allowed both mariadb and percona variants for p5-DBD-mysql for
> many years:
>
>   https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commit/66d470aab2b6aaea7ac70b08719df8248f1470b7
>
> I'm not the biggest user of this personally but my understanding from
> users is that it works fine.  This also means you aren't tied to a
> specific version of mysql in binary package repositories.

Thanks.  I just removed the only-allow-mysql and tried to rebuild (with
mariadb106) and got errors.  So it seems upstream p5-BDB-mysql dropped
mariadb support in 5.

"cvs up -r pkgsrc-2025Q2" here we come :-)