Sequoia 15.1 Upgrade replaced homebrew mariadb with MySQL Community Server

[vfontjr]

I'm a software developer and run mariadb installed through homebrew. When I first upgraded to Sequoia, my mariadb installation got trashed. I reinstalled and when the next bugfix release came out, I stopped all brew services to run the OS update and everything turned out fine.

I did the same this time with the 15.1 upgrade, but when I went to restart the homebrew services, mariadb wouldn't start. The brew services command showed mariadb's status as none. Mariadb was no longer installed.

Nevertheless, I opened PHPMyAdmin on local host and was shocked that it came up without error even with mariadb uninstalled. Then I saw this:

"Server version: 8.0.12 - MySQL Community Server - GPL"

There is also a startup item in the system settings for Oracle. I did not install this software and find it highly intrusive that Apple updates break development environments.

 

[biffuz]

Wow, this is concerning. I'll have to do some research about this.

 

[vfontjr]

I opened a thread on the Homebrew site to try to get some understanding. They're saying it's impossible for homebrew to uninstall something on it's own and they think there are uninstall commands in the init scripts.

 

[chrfr]

macOS definitely does not include a MySQL installer so I don't know where you got that copy of the MySQL server installed but it didn't come from Apple.