[debian-mysql] my.cnf problems

[Norvald H. Ryeng]

On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 03:10:07 +0100, Clint Byrum <spamaps at debian.org> wrote:

> Excerpts from Bjoern Boschman's message of 2013-12-06 06:01:19 -0800:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've seen some blockers due to the fact that everybody (mysql, maria,
>> percona) includes my.cnf from mysql-common.
>>
>> my 2 cent:
>>
>> maria: /etc/mariadb/my.cnf
>> mysql: /etc/mysql/my.cnf
>> percona: /etc/percona/my.cnf
>>
>> From my point of view it's a dream that cannot be fullfilled that all
>> forks can share the same configuration file.
>>
>
> This dream is one propagated by all three. They hard code /etc/mysql
> everywhere.

Actually, I think the path is defined only once, in  
init_default_directories() in mysys. MySQL already looks for  
/etc/mysql/my.cnf if there is no /etc/my.cnf. If Percona and MariaDB do  
something similar, the problem is solved by not having /etc/my.cnf.

> This is complicated further by libmysqlclient also hard coding the path.

AFAIK, it uses the same mysys function.

Regards,

Norvald