Re: Your tips to MariaDB?

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 03:43:25PM +0200, Robert Siln wrote:
> Thank you for your work with pkgsrc. We are reaching out to package
> maintainers from MariaDB Foundation to inquire if you are content with
> MariaDB. Do you have any tips or feedback on how we at the Foundation could
> support effective or better packaging of MariaDB?

Yes, we are shipping separate client and server packages.
We've been doing this for MySQL long before MariaDB existed and
our infrastrucutre is built around that model.

This requires us to build the server separately from the client
in a way where they don't install any conflicting files.

Currently this isn't possible with upstream mariadb, and we have
a lot of patches.

Mostly ones that change

IF(NOT WITHOUT_SERVER)
[...build server stuff...]
ENDIF()

to

IF(NOT WITHOUT_SERVER)
[...build server stuff...]
ELSE()
[...build client stuff...]
ENDIF()

I would really appreciate a WITHOUT_CLIENT option to build
just the server code when an installed client is already available.