[debian-mysql] Bug#1056395: mariadb-server: debian.cnf [mysql_upgrade] basedir option ignored

[rpnpif]

Le 22/11/2023 à 17:07, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit :
>> The automatically generated /etc/mysql/debian.cnf includes:
>>          [mysql_upgrade]
>>          ...
>>          basedir  = /usr
>>
>> However, mysql_upgrade(1) says:
>>          --basedir=path
>>          Old option accepted for backward compatibility but ignored.
>>
>> This issue is still present in 10.11.5-3 release from SID.
> 
> 
> No, it is not in neither Bookworm nor Deibian Sid / unstable anymore.
> This can be confirmed by looking into files at
> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/tree/debian/latest/debian
> or testing with a fresh install:
> 
> ```
> ± docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/build -w /build debian:sid bash
> root at eb0c4013a610:/build# apt update
> root at eb0c4013a610:/build# apt install -y mariadb-server
> ...
> Setting up mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 (1:10.11.5-3) ...
> Setting up mariadb-plugin-provider-lzma (1:10.11.5-3) ...
> Setting up mariadb-plugin-provider-lzo (1:10.11.5-3) ...
> Setting up mariadb-plugin-provider-lz4 (1:10.11.5-3) ...
> Setting up libcgi-fast-perl (1:2.17-1) ...
> Setting up mariadb-plugin-provider-snappy (1:10.11.5-3) ...
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.37-12) ...
> Processing triggers for mariadb-server (1:10.11.5-3) ...
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog
> based frontend cannot be used. at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel
> invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart.
> root at eb0c4013a610:/build# cat /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
> # THIS FILE IS OBSOLETE. STOP USING IT IF POSSIBLE.
> # This file exists only for backwards compatibility for
> # tools that run '--defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf'
> # and have root level access to the local filesystem.
> # With those permissions one can run 'mariadb' directly
> # anyway thanks to unix socket authentication and hence
> # this file is useless. See package README for more info.
> [client]
> host     = localhost
> user     = root
> [mysql_upgrade]
> host     = localhost
> user     = root
> # THIS FILE WILL BE REMOVED IN A FUTURE DEBIAN RELEASE.
> ```
> 
> If you have '[mysql_upgrade]' with anything else than above in your
> /etc/mysql/debian.cnf it must be a remnant from some other older prior
> install.

I download mariadb-server_10.11.5-3_amd64.deb from SID.
Decompress and see that /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf has
basedir = /usr

Have you the same files?

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Rpnpif