[debian-mysql] mysql-5.7: secure_file_priv

[Norvald H. Ryeng]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:18:33 +0100, Bjoern Boschman <bjoern at boschman.de>  
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I think we both have the same understanding of the manual :-)
> My point about secure_file_priv is that users comming from mysql-5.6 or
> smaller which already are using operations like 'LOAD DATA INFILE..' now
> will be confused, as they might not know this new security feature.
> But this could/should be handled via NEWS.Debian
>
> Anyhow i've pushed my latest work into git with the following problem:
>
> mysql-5.7 clean install works.
>
> mysql-5.5 -> mysql-5.7
> mysql-5.6 -> mysql-5.7
>   still some failures due to changed upgradepath
>   I still have not figured out how to implement a rubust mysql_upgrade
> during upgrade.
>
> @ora: I know that your documentation states that "Direct upgrades that  
> skip
> a release level (for example, upgrading directly from MySQL 5.5 to 5.7)  
> are
> not recommended or supported"
> Anyhow - we still got several month before stretch will be freezed and  
> I'd
> really would like to ship mysql-5.7 already?
> What do you folks think about?

I agree, we should go for a direct 5.5->5.7 upgrade.

Norvald