[debian-mysql] mysql-5.7: secure_file_priv

[Norvald H. Ryeng]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:41:20 +0100, Clint Byrum <spamaps at debian.org> wrote:

> Excerpts from Norvald H. Ryeng's message of 2016-01-12 07:39:30 -0800:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Is that a supported operation? If not, then IMO, we cannot ship 5.7
> until 5.6 has shipped in a stable release.

No, it's not officially supported. The requirement on development is that  
we must be able to upgrade from the previous major version, so that's what  
we can officially support. But that doesn't mean it won't work.

There's no requirement that users must be able to skip one version during  
upgrade, but there's also no requirement that they must not, so it will  
vary from major release to major release if it works. We've done some  
testing and believe a direct upgrade is doable for 5.5->5.7 following the  
same procedures as from 5.6 to 5.7.

Norvald