Issue installing FreeRADIUS 3.2.3 MySQL module.

[Alan DeKok]

On Dec 18, 2023, at 8:34 AM, Mucci Andrea via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> I'm installing the latest stable version of FreeRADIUS (3.2.3) on the Rhel 8.9 operating system, via the networkradius repository "NetworkRADIUS-8".
> I have to interface with MariaDB version 10.5, so I have to install the "freeradius-mysql" package.
> 
> The installation has "mysql-common" and "mysql-libs" dependencies which however conflict with the installed libraries of the MariaDB server.
> So, it doesn't let me install the "freeradius-mysql" package.
> 
> Anyone have any idea how I can solve this??

  You'll have to re-build the packages.

  I don't know enough about RPM packaging to know if we can update the packages to say "accept any one of these DB dependencies".

  I suspect not.  The MariaDB packages (headers, libraries, functions, definitions, etc.) would have to be 100% compatible with MySQL.  I think that they mostly are, but I haven't looked in enough detail to know for sure.

  Alan DeKok.