Hello, We’re running Percona 5.7 on RHEL 8. When using dnf to install Percona from the yum repos, it wants to install Percona-Server-shared-compat-57. $ sudo dnf install Percona-Server-server-57 Last metadata expiration check: 0:29:39 ago on Tue 22 Aug 2023 05:19:02 PM UTC. Dependencies resolved. …

Would you rather have 1,000 people install your software and it just works out of the box, or have 1,000 people opening support tickets asking why the latest version of Percona Server doesn’t work on their system? :wink: If you don’t need it, you can remove it. rpm -e --nodeps

If you don’t need it, you can remove it. rpm -e --nodeps If I remove it, won’t it just get reinstalled the next time Percona updates?

Probably. It’s not hurting anything to leave it there and not causing any other impact. Well, it installs the compat-openssl10 package, which is affected by a number of CVEs right now. I know we’d only be affected by these CVEs if we were using a MySQL client that requires these older libraries, …

[image] resuni: But the MySQL 8 version of this compatibility package will also be installed as a dependency of the MySQL 8 version of the client I don’t think that’s correct. This is a RHEL9 system that I installed 8.0 on just two days ago. No compat packages here: [root@db06-a data]# rpm -…

I just spun up a fresh Rocky 8 VM to check myself. When installing percona-server-server, the compat packages did get installed: [vagrant@percona2 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i percona percona-server-shared-compat-8.0.33-25.1.el8.x86_64 percona-icu-data-files-8.0.33-25.1.el8.x86_64 percona-server-shared-8.…

Why is Percona-Server-shared-compat-57 a dependency of Percona-Server-client-57?

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matthewb August 22, 2023, 8:53pm 4

Probably. It’s not hurting anything to leave it there and not causing any other impact.

Side note, you do know that 5.7 dies in 40 days right? I’m hoping that this testing is prep for upgrade to 8.0

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Why is Percona-Server-shared-compat-57 a dependency of Percona-Server-client-57?

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