Bug 174755 – dev-db/mysql-5.0.38 my.conf datadir change sucks

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-16 08:08:26 UTC]

/etc/portage/ is for portage config data, not mysql stuff.

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2007-04-16 08:15:11 UTC]

what the hell are you talking about? your one sentence description doesn't tell me anything.

Nowhere in mysql is /etc/portage used.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-16 08:20:41 UTC]

Care to elaborate what's your trouble exactly? Noone sets
/etc/portage/ as DATADIR, as far as I can tell. o_O

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-17 07:37:39 UTC]

*sigh*

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2007-04-17 09:27:00 UTC]

carlo: could you please provide the information requested?

"equery f dev-db/mysql | grep /etc/portage" gives me nothing.

as does grepping for /etc/portage in ${D} right after src_install.

[Comment 5 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-17 16:24:37 UTC]

# grep portage /etc/mysql/my.cnf
datadir                                         = /etc/portage/data


but -- I realize what's going on now - and should have noticed earlier. I have a a local bashrc file and set the variable DATADIR globally.

So, while thisis definitely a local hickup and we've - partly at least - the very same problem with other eclasses (kde.eclass variable naming is probably the worst example I know first hand) would you mind, changing your variable scheme to prefix with MYSQL_ and taking care declaring and initializing local ones as local, please!? :)

[Comment 6 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-04-17 16:28:16 UTC]

uh...

[Comment 7 Robin Johnson 2007-04-25 18:25:25 UTC]

changed in CVS.