We recently went through this exact update, also on CentOS. We did not experience any problems with any of our databases, all using the InnoDB engine. I have included our internal update, this can save you some time and show you which way we took.
This guide assumes that you are using AMD64 versjon og CentOS 6.
Create a repo yum file for MariaDB and name it /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.0/centos6-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1
// The signing key value is 0x1BB943DB.
Delete the current MariaDB server and client. If yum was used to install them, use:
yum remove mysql MySQL-server MySQL-shared MySQL-shared-compat
This should remove all packages depending on MariaDB / MySQL and therefore you will need to reinstall php-mysql as described below. Any other packages depending on MySQL must also be reinstalled, so keep an eye out for this.
Install MariaDB
yum install MariaDB server MariaDB client
Reinstall PHP MySQL lib
yum install php-mysql
MariaDB, Apache
service mysql start
mysql_upgrade
service httpd restart
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