I started using Bacula with 7 and it looked for MariaDB during the installation, using the CentOS 7 rpms. When I went to 7.4.7 I had to compile from source and was only able to get MySQL to work.
The Fedora prebuilt packages work fine with MariaDB on all Fedora/CentOS/RHEL releases. Please look here:
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