The installation of client packages could cause a file conflict in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Hi,

I was about to install latest Percona Server 5.7 on CentOS 8 according to:

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/05/31/rhel-8-packages-available-for-percona- products/

But there are packaging mistakes in Percona-Server-client-57-5.7.28-31.1.el8.x86_64 that prevents the install. /usr/bin/mysql_config and /usr/bin/mysql_config-64 belongs to Percona-Server-devel-57.x86_64 and is indeed provided by Percona-Server-devel-57. So, the fix is rather easy.

1. cat /etc/redhat-release
   CentOS Linux release 8.0.1905 (Core)

[[email protected] /]# dnf install -y Percona-Server-server-57 Percona-Server-client-57
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:52 ago on Sun Dec 29 15:41:32 2019.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
Percona-Server-client-57 x86_64 5.7.28-31.1.el8 percona-release-x86_64 7.4 M
Percona-Server-server-57 x86_64 5.7.28-31.1.el8 percona-release-x86_64 31 M
replacing mariadb-connector-c-config.noarch 3.0.7-1.el8
Installing dependencies:
compat-openssl10 x86_64 1:1.0.2o-3.el8 AppStream 1.1 M
Percona-Server-shared-57 x86_64 5.7.28-31.1.el8 percona-release-x86_64 750 k
Percona-Server-shared-compat-57 x86_64 5.7.28-31.1.el8 percona-release-x86_64 1.2 M

Transaction Summary
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Install 5 Packages

Total size: 41 M
Downloading Packages:
[SKIPPED] compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-3.el8.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] Percona-Server-client-57-5.7.28-31.1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] Percona-Server-server-57-5.7.28-31.1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] Percona-Server-shared-57-5.7.28-31.1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] Percona-Server-shared-compat-57-5.7.28-31.1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
Error: Transaction check error:
file /usr/bin/mysql_config from install of Percona-Server-client-57-5.7.28-31.1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.0.7-1.el8.x86_64

Error Summary
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Proposed fix:

[[email protected] /]# diff -u percona-server.spec percona-server.spec.oden
— percona-server.spec 2019-12-29 16:03:13.303000000 +0100
+++ percona-server.spec.oden 2019-12-29 16:04:22.634000000 +0100
@@ -922,8 +922,6 @@
%attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/mysqlpump
%attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/mysqlshow
%attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/mysqlslap
-%attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/mysql_config
%attr(755, root, root) %{bindir}/mysql_config%{_isa_bits}
%attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/mysql_config_editor

%attr(644, root, root) %{_mandir}/man1/mysql.1*

Cheers.