[debian-mysql] my.cnf

[Monty Taylor]

sean finney wrote:
> heya monty,
> 
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 11:55:13 am Monty Taylor wrote:
>> Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 19.12.2007, 01:53 -0200 schrieb Monty Taylor:
>>>> I just noticed that /etc/mysql/my.cnf is not listed as a conffile. Is
>>>> this on purpose? If so, can I ask why?
>>> It is listed as conffile, but in mysql-common, because it's required not
>>> just for the -server package, but also for the -client package.
>> Where do we set this? I grepped through the files in trunk for conffile
>> and my.cnf and couldn't find any reference to this...
> 
> iirc it's one of the debhelper tools at build time that automatically flags 
> anything targeted for /etc as a conffile.  dh_installdeb is where i'd look 
> first.

ahhhhh... thanks!