Problem with Mariadb & Mysql2_chef_gem

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Hi,
Apologises if Im asking a stupid queston.

I have been running for years chef cookbooks on Ubuntu
System Ubuntu 16.04,
Cookbooks : database, mariad, mysql2_chef_gem

Im recently since upgrades to Maria 10.2 and usual OS changes, my chef system has started to fail.
I removed the pre-complied gems, but this didnt help.

I have also recently upgraded to mysql2_chef_gem 2.0.1.

There is a dependency in 2.0.1 to include mysql ( but Im using Mariadb), and this causes the compilation to fail.. here is an extract..

` - mariadb (1.5.1)

• unix_bin (0.2.9)
• mysql (8.4.0)
• mysql2_chef_gem (2.0.1)

Installing Cookbook Gems:
Compiling Cookbooks...

================================================================================
Recipe Compile Error in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mysql/libraries/provider_mysql_client.rb

NameError

uninitialized constant MysqlCookbook::Helpers

Cookbook Trace:

/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mysql/libraries/provider_mysql_client.rb:7:in <class:MysqlClient>' /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mysql/libraries/provider_mysql_client.rb:6:in class:Provider'
/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mysql/libraries/provider_mysql_client.rb:5:in <class:Chef>' /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mysql/libraries/provider_mysql_client.rb:4:in <top (required)>'

Relevant File Content:

/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/mysql/libraries/provider_mysql_client.rb:

1: require 'chef/provider/lwrp_base'
2: require_relative 'helpers'
3:
4: class Chef
5: class Provider
6: class MysqlClient < Chef::Provider::LWRPBase
7>> include MysqlCookbook::Helpers
8: provides :mysql_client if defined?(provides)
9:
10: use_inline_resources if defined?(use_inline_resources)
11:
12: def whyrun_supported?
13: true
14: end
15:
16: action :create do

Platform:

x86_64-linux`

I have managed to fix this, by removing the mysql dependency in the mysql2_chef_gem on mysql, so it is not included, but clearly this is a fudge..

Any experience's out there clearly welcome.

BTW : I see that 'database' is now depreciated.. so...what _is then the right way to do a 'mysql_database' to set up a database ? it seems ( with mysql2_chef_gem ) perfer a critical function/helper...
confused of England.
;-)