[MacPorts] #30678: mysql5 should not read /etc/my.cnf

[MacPorts]

#30678: mysql5 should not read /etc/my.cnf
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 Reporter:  jeremyhu@…             |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new                    
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:                         
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  2.0.1                  
 Keywords:                         |        Port:  mysql5                 
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Comment(by ryandesign@…):

 It sounds like on your system you had a file /etc/my.cnf that specified
 that the socket should live in /var/mysql/mysql.sock, and so MacPorts
 MySQL honored that request, as would any other distribution of MySQL. If
 you had not had that file with those contents MacPorts MySQL would have
 used its default socket at /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock.

 Are you saying that the file /etc/my.cnf was not created by you but was
 provided by Apple on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server? If so I can see how
 that would cause this problem now. But I had also understood that
 [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/02/apple_dumps_mysql_from_mac_os_x_server/
 Mac OS X Lion Server does not include MySQL anymore]. And of course Mac OS
 X client has never included MySQL. So I don't see how you're going to be
 able to migrate a Snow Leopard Server Apple MySQL setup to Lion Server
 anyway, without finding another way (like MacPorts) to install MySQL.

 By "'claiming' /var/mysql" are you saying that MacPorts mysqld was
 creating its socket in that directory and keeping it open? That should
 only have happened if MacPorts mysqld was started. And if you started
 MacPorts mysqld, that's a good indication that you're actually using it
 for something, and that perhaps Apple's migration script was right in not
 trying to interfere with it.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30678#comment:12>
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