installation of Mysql Client RPM on backend servers

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Hello,

I need to remove old mysql client rpm’s and installed latest one on backend servers in Production environment I was wondering if uninstalling and installing mysql client , shared and compact rpm’s have any impact on production env. or can break any currently running jobs.

Please shed some light.

Thank you.

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removing old mysql client doesn’t have any impact of running mysql server, however you need to check if there are any running perl/python/shell script using mysql connection have any dependencies on shared or compact RPMs. For example perl-DBD-MySQL rpm have dependencies on mysql client libraries.