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Comments - MariaDB 5.5 - Centos 7 - last version not available

5 years, 3 months ago Daniel Bartholomew
Re: MariaDB 5.5 - Centos 7 - last version not available [Answer]

The MariaDB yum repositories are updated every time a release is made and we generally keep the most recent three versions of a given MariaDB branch in our repositories.

CentOS, and by extension RedHat, update MariaDB in their repositories according to their own schedule, which we have no control over. Because of this, the version of MariaDB 5.5 in the CentOS/RHEL base repository may be a few versions out of date compared to what you will find in the MariaDB repositories.

With a MariaDB 5.5 /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo file in place, you can see all of the MariaDB 5.5 versions currently available from both the MariaDB repositories and the CentOS base repository:

[buildbot@centos74-amd64 ~]$ sudo yum list --showduplicates mariadb-server
Available Packages
MariaDB-server.x86_64        5.5.60-1.el7.centos         mariadb
MariaDB-server.x86_64        5.5.61-1.el7.centos         mariadb
MariaDB-server.x86_64        5.5.62-1.el7.centos         mariadb
mariadb-server.x86_64        1:5.5.60-1.el7_5            base

So currently (Jan 2019) in the MariaDB 5.5 repository MariaDB 5.5.60, 5.5.61, and 5.5.62 are available; and in the CentOS base repository only MariaDB 5.5.60 is available.

As to why there is no mariadb.service file, that is because that is something CentOS/RedHat add to their mariadb-server 5.5.x packages. We only include a mariadb.service systemd file for CentOS 7 (located at /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service) for our MariaDB 10.1 and higher packages.

 
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