[syslog-ng] mysql destination on el6, with syslog-ng 3.8

Wed Nov 16 08:31:24 UTC 2016

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 04:39:41PM -0900, Glen Johnson wrote:
> It appears the syslog-ng38epel6 on COPR uses libdbi 0.9.0 from el7.  When
> attempting to install syslog-ng from here, on an CentOS 6 instance, and
> then install libdbi-dbd-mysql, yum is unable to find appropriate version of
> libdbi-dbd-mysql to install.  On el6, only libdbi 0.8.3 appears to be
> available, which yum does not think is compatible with libdbi 0.9.0.  Not
> sure how to use syslog-ng's mysql destination on CentOS/RHEL 6 due to
> this.  Any insight how to solve this, without creating a separate copr/obs
> build, would be appreciated !

the dependency is also available on COPR [1]

[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng38epel6/package/libdbi/