[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#608274: Bug#608274: Issue isn't limited to the mysql agent

[Simon Horman]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:58:02AM +0100, Florian Haas wrote:
> On 2011-01-04 05:06, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:50:18PM +0100, Florian Haas wrote:
> >> The issue you are highlighting isn't specific to the ocf:heartbeat:mysql
> >> RA. There are several resource agents where the upstream default does
> >> not match the Debian default.
> >>
> >> This means we should either fix this for _all_ resource agents that ship
> >> in the cluster-agents package, or leave it to users to set the proper
> >> path in the resource configuration (which is perfectly possible, which
> >> is why I'm downgrading the severity to normal here).
> >>
> >> Thoughts? Horms, maybe?
> > 
> > Thought: wow, what a mess!
> > I think that the best thing to do would be to incorporate changes
> > such as the one that Laurent posted as they are found. Probably
> > as patches in debian/patches.
> 
> Well, it's actually a mess with two sides, the mysql RA interestingly
> exposing both:
> 
> * Some upstream defaults are just horribly outdated (such as the mysql
> binary defaulting to safe_mysqld, which IIRC MySQL 3.23 was the last
> version to ship with). And I believe those should be fixed upstream.

That sounds fine to me.

> * Other upstream defaults merely don't match what the specific distro
> considers the default (such as, with mysql, config). Established
> precedent, from SLES, is that distro packaging substitutes the "correct"
> distro default.

That also sounds fine to me.

Perhaps you can handle the upstream side of things and I'll
handle the Debian side of things by putting Laurent's patch
into debian/patches? I can make a new upload too.

> > We could talk also with upstream about making these
> > per-distro configurations made at ./configure time.
> 
> Ugh. That sounds like making things worse. No I think pretty much
> everyone upstream agrees that distro specific stuff should be covered in
> distro packaging.

Ok, sure, I'll drop that portion of my thought on the floor right now.