[debian-mysql] my.cnf in mysql-server instaed of mysql-common

Monty Taylor monty at inaugust.com
Wed Feb 20 15:21:06 UTC 2008


Monty Taylor wrote:

>> If I wanted to run multiple binaries I would have to pass separate configs
>> to each of them anyway.
>>
>> So I don't see the problem right now...
> 
> Well, mysql looks in /etc/mysql/my.cnf by default now too. So they don't
> install any mysql packages,  but mysql-common probably gets installed
> due to a depend somewhere, and then then install their tarball and all
> of a sudden it's reading settings that they aren't expecting.

What if we put an /etc/mysql/my.cnf in mysql-common that just includes
/etc/mysql/conf.d, and then have mysql-client install an
/etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql-client and mysql-server install an
/etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql-server?



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