[debian-mysql] Bug#630837: mysql-client-5.1: Pager option in .my.conf breaks mysqldump

[Dominique Brazziel]

Package: mysql-client-5.1
Version: 5.1.49-3
Severity: normal

    I have the following line in the '[client]'
block of '~/.my.cnf':

    pager = less
    
When I try to run mysqldump it ends with an error:

    mysqldump:  Unknown variable pager = less
    
Googling this class of error had many hits but only
one exact hit on the first page, dated Wed, 07 Mar 2001!

http://www.mail-archive.com/mysql@lists.mysql.com/msg06218.html

What say we have a look at this one.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-interactive-3-atom (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mysql-client-5.1 depends on:
ii  debianutils             4.0.1            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                   2.13-4           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl       4.018-1+b1       Perl5 database interface to the My
ii  libdbi-perl             1.616-1+b1       Perl Database Interface (DBI)
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.0-10       GCC support library
ii  libmysqlclient16        5.1.49-3         MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses5             5.9-1            shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline6            6.2-2            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-10         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwrap0                7.6.q-19         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  mysql-common            5.1.49-3         MySQL database common files, e.g. 
ii  perl                    5.12.3-7+b1      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

mysql-client-5.1 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mysql-client-5.1 suggests:
ii  libterm-readkey-perl          2.30-4+b1  A perl module for simple terminal 

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