Sunday, May 13, 2018

MySQL 5.5 PPA Trustworthy?




I found this PPA which features MySQL 5.5 (alongside php 5.3.8 packages..):



https://launchpad.net/~nathan-renniewaldock/+archive/ppa



Seems to be working fine on my 11.10 Ubuntu, ut I can't find anything on the person/group behind the release.



Is this PPA trustworthy? Do you know anything about "Nathan Rennie-Waldock"? Is there any other alternative?



Ultimately it is going to be your choice whether you wan't to use the PPA. The LP user in question does not seem to be a member of any teams but honestly I see little value in someone going through all the time of creating a PPA, Signing the CoC and packaging MySQL just to try and distribute something other than what it purports to be.




You could download the official MySQL 5.5 release and grab the PPA's package take them apart and do checksum.


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