[debian-mysql] Discussion on handling 5.6 related matters

[Akhil Mohan]

On Monday 21 July 2014 06:40 AM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Akhil Mohan's message of 2014-07-09 12:29:24 -0700:
>> Hi Robie,
>>
>> Consider the case when a user goes for co-installed data dir for
>> multiple variants as /var/lib/fork{1,2,3,...} and plans to remove all
>> forks. I have following questions:
>>
>>  1. Will purging the server package for each fork trigger removal of
>>     data dir or purging mysql-defaults will remove data dir ?
>>  2. If the removal is associated with mysql-defaults, then in
>>     co-installed setup will mysql-defaults remove all data dirs at once
>>     or allow selection ?
>>  3. If all data dirs will be removed together, then it is possible to
>>     accidentally remove more than required. How will we control this ?
>>  4. Since user might do manual data dir creation and also add the
>>     required entries in config manually so the mysql-defaults package
>>     may always not know if data dir is present and might remove user
>>     accounts owning the custom data dir leaving data inaccessible. Will
>>     we check for only standard data dirs or read them from config files ?
> In 'remove' we don't remove the user. In purge we do, but files outside
> the package maintainer's configuration reach are really not the package
> maintainer's problem.
>
> IMO we should not go through the config file in purge and remove
> datadirs that we did not configure.
Yes, I assumed more control and responsibility on maintainers than
expected. Since Robie is proposing to keep data dir handling with
individual variant's server package, so this question should not apply
anymore.
>
>>  5. I see possibility of config files getting custom location during
>>     manual setup ? Do we see this as trouble ?
> Maintainer scripts and the like should be concerned with automating _the
> common case_, and with getting out of the way in the uncommon case. So
> we should take responsibility for the datadir for each package, but
> leave anything else alone.
Yeah, I got this one wrong in my head. Now, we can take the standard
case and automate it with ease.
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