Hard work that goes unnoticed ....

I took a moment today and updated one of my Linux distributions.  In this distribution I happen to have Percona 5.6 installed as the MySQL Database. I have mentioned before how you can set up your choice of MySQL via a Yum repository.

My point here is though, how do we ever thank these people for all the work they do?

Many of these repositories are run by companies and these people get paid for what they do. Yet, through survey's and general observation/questions of the Linux (including Debian/Ubuntu) community, a majority of people will not upgrade until it is available in their distribution. I happen to be  one who wants to stay on top of security and bug fixes, so I have the yum repository update from the source as often as possible.

My point is,  a lot of work goes into packaging of these files for distribution and for the most part it looks like a pretty thankless job. I recall the older (not old but older) days of tar and gzip, when you had to dig and find the dependencies yourself. -- ./configure..  nope need something else go download and install that then try again.....

I just upgraded 25 different packages in a few moments, which would have taken some time before. While Yum and Apt Get are far from new, and I sound like an old timer here, I just thought it might be nice to say thanks, to all of the people who work behind the scenes to make all of our Linux experiences, let alone the related MySQL installs, easier and smoother.

I will point out that Oracle does have 5.6 packages now available.

• http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL56/

I recall that my previous post mentioned how it had not been. 

MySQL YUM Repo (Oracle's, MariaDB's and Percona's)

Lots of people today prefer to stick with the yum package manager when installing their related software over downloading the latest RPM from MySQL for example.

While you can download RPMS from a vendor and install with yum (yum install *.rpm ) you also can update your yum repo to pull directly from the Vendor for MySQL packages. At the time of this post you will only get you up to MySQL 5.5.13 even though MySQL 5.6 GA was released 5 February 2013 via the Oracle repo. Now that MariaDB has released MariaDB-5.5.33 I would hope Oracle will get a move on and update their public repo.

Regardless of what you choose. Here is how to set up vendor repos so you can access what you would like.

All of the instances have pages that I have listed that are easy to follow and set up. I will go ahead and give examples as well.

I will use CentOS 6 64bit for these examples.

In all of the  cases you will be working from the yum.repos.d directory as root.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d

http://public-yum.oracle.com
wget https://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo
# vi public-yum-ol6.repo
Locate the following and edit enabled to 1 from 0 then save the file.




[ol6_MySQL]
name=MySQL for Oracle Linux 6 ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

yum list | grep MySQL
mysql.x86_64                              5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL
mysql-devel.x86_64                        5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL
mysql-embedded.x86_64                     5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL
mysql-embedded-devel.x86_64               5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL
mysql-libs.x86_64                         5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL
mysql-libs-compat.x86_64                  5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL
mysql-server.x86_64                       5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL
mysql-test.x86_64                         5.5.34-1.el6                ol6_MySQL


https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
vi MariaDB.repo






MariaDB does offer you the choice to pick 5.5 OR 10, I used 5.5 for this example.

# MariaDB 5.5 CentOS repository list - created 2013-09-24 21:59 UTC
# http://mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/5.5/centos6-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1


MariaDB-Galera-server.x86_64              5.5.32-1                    mariadb  
MariaDB-client.x86_64                     5.5.33a-1                   mariadb  
MariaDB-common.x86_64                     5.5.33a-1                   mariadb  
MariaDB-compat.x86_64                     5.5.33a-1                   mariadb  
MariaDB-devel.x86_64                      5.5.33a-1                   mariadb  
MariaDB-server.x86_64                     5.5.33a-1                   mariadb  
MariaDB-shared.x86_64                     5.5.33a-1                   mariadb  
MariaDB-test.x86_64                       5.5.33a-1                   mariadb  
galera.x86_64                             23.2.6-1.rhel6              mariadb




http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/yum_repo.html
 vi Percona.repo

[percona]
name = CentOS $releasever - Percona
baseurl=http://repo.percona.com/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
enabled = 1
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-percona
gpgcheck = 1

percona-toolkit.noarch                    2.2.4-1                     @/percona-toolkit-2.2.4-1.noarch
percona-xtrabackup.x86_64                 2.1.3-608.rhel6             @/percona-xtrabackup-2.1.3-608.rhel6.x86_64
Percona-SQL-50-debuginfo.x86_64           5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6         percona  
Percona-SQL-client-50.x86_64              5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6         percona  
Percona-SQL-devel-50.x86_64               5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6         percona  
Percona-SQL-server-50.x86_64              5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6         percona  
Percona-SQL-shared-50.x86_64              5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6         percona  
Percona-SQL-shared-compat.x86_64          5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6         percona  
Percona-SQL-test-50.x86_64                5.0.92-b23.89.rhel6         percona  
Percona-Server-51-debuginfo.x86_64        5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-55-debuginfo.x86_64        5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-56-debuginfo.x86_64        5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6     percona  
Percona-Server-client-51.x86_64           5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-client-55.x86_64           5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-client-56.x86_64           5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6     percona  
Percona-Server-devel-51.x86_64            5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-devel-55.x86_64            5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-devel-56.x86_64            5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6     percona  
Percona-Server-server-51.x86_64           5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-server-55.x86_64           5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-server-56.x86_64           5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6     percona  
Percona-Server-shared-51.x86_64           5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-shared-55.x86_64           5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-shared-56.x86_64           5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6     percona  
Percona-Server-shared-compat.x86_64       5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-shared-compat-51.x86_64    5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-test-51.x86_64             5.1.71-rel14.9.589.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-test-55.x86_64             5.5.33-rel31.1.566.rhel6    percona  
Percona-Server-test-56.x86_64             5.6.13-rc60.6.427.rhel6     percona  
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-client.x86_64      1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6   percona  
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-debuginfo.x86_64   1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6   percona  
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-devel.x86_64       1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6   percona  
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-galera.x86_64      2.7-1.157.rhel6             percona  
                                          2.7-1.157.rhel6             percona  
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-server.x86_64      1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6   percona  
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-shared.x86_64      1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6   percona  
Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-test.x86_64        1:5.5.33-23.7.6.495.rhel6   percona  
jemalloc.x86_64                           3.3.1-1.el6                 percona  
jemalloc-devel.x86_64                     3.3.1-1.el6                 percona  
percona-cacti-templates.noarch            1.0.4-1                     percona  
percona-nagios-plugins.noarch             1.0.4-1                     percona  
percona-playback.x86_64                   0.6-2.el6                   percona  
percona-playback-debuginfo.x86_64         0.6-2.el6                   percona  
percona-playback-devel.x86_64             0.6-2.el6                   percona  
percona-xtrabackup.x86_64                 2.1.5-680.rhel6             percona  
percona-xtrabackup-20.x86_64              2.0.8-587.rhel6             percona  
percona-xtrabackup-20-debuginfo.x86_64    2.0.8-587.rhel6             percona  
percona-xtrabackup-20-test.x86_64         2.0.8-587.rhel6             percona  
percona-xtrabackup-test.x86_64            2.1.5-680.rhel6             percona  
qpress.x86_64                             11-1.el6                    percona  
qpress-debuginfo.x86_64                   11-1.el6                    percona
 

Hopefully this will help you all be able to get updated beyond what might be in your standard repos at the moment.


AS AN UPDATE:
 I should also point out that MariaDB and Percona also have additional repos for other Linux distros.

• https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/
• http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/installation/apt_repo.html#