MySQL requires you to configure the database if no previous database is installed. The mysql-5.0.16 - mysql-5.0.17 -ebuild script is broken (last "good" syntax was in mysql-5.0.15 ebuild): # ebuild /usr/portage/dev-db/mysql/mysql-5.0.17 config * Using default DATADIR * MySQL DATADIR is /var/lib/mysql * Creating the mysql database and setting proper * permissions on it... * Insert a password for the mysql 'root' user * Avoid ["'\_%] characters in the password > * Check the password > /var/tmp/portage/mysql-5.0.17/temp /var/tmp/portage /var/tmp/portage . * Loading "zoneinfo" this step may require few seconds ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 17072: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ': Unable to load '//usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Riyadh87' as time zone. Skipping it.' at line 34 * stopping the server, * done
(In reply to comment #0) > . * Loading "zoneinfo" this step may require few seconds > ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 17072: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check > the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax > to use near ': Unable to load '//usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Riyadh87' as time > zone. Skipping it.' at line 34 The "bad" line in the ebuild is (763/764): ${ROOT}/usr/bin/mysql_tzinfo_to_sql${MY_SUFFIX} ${ROOT}/usr/share/zoneinfo \ > "${sqltmp}" 2>&1 | grep -v "Skipping it." Should have been: ${ROOT}/usr/bin/mysql_tzinfo_to_sql${MY_SUFFIX} ${ROOT}/usr/share/zoneinfo \ 2>&1 > "${sqltmp}" | grep -v "Skipping it." If you must know why, the order of the redirection matters, previously it was outputting error lines to sqltmp. Do you want a patch? It's just a one liner.
Fixed now, the standard error (2>&1 | grep ...) is now redirected to a more friendly /dev/null belive me or not it was working here 8-O . @Jari-Matti M
Fixed now, the standard error (2>&1 | grep ...) is now redirected to a more friendly /dev/null belive me or not it was working here 8-O . @Jari-Matti Mäkelä Thanks for the report @Rodolfo Boer Thanks for center the point
