Bug 462166 – dev-db/mysql-5.1.67: emerge --config fails

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Patrick Lauer 2013-03-18 08:54:39 UTC]

# emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.1.67


Configuring pkg...

 * ERROR: dev-db/mysql-5.1.67 failed (config phase):
 *   Your machine must NOT be named localhost


... why does it exclude random names randomly from being used ?!

[Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2013-03-18 12:25:53 UTC]

I know this has been known for a while and that we have bugs about it, but I can't find one now.

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2013-03-18 20:03:52 UTC]

I want to mark RESO UPSTREAM, but I'm willing to discuss

1.
Explicitly because because the string localhost is handled specially for connections.
"mysql -hlocalhost" actually uses the named socket file if available.
"mysql -h127.0.0.1" uses TCP on localhost.

If you explicitly want to end up with one LESS ACL rule, we can workaround this, but if you then change the name of the host, you could be locking yourself out of mysql.

2.
The upstream testsuite fails if your hostname is localhost, because it wants to check that the above works properly.

[Comment 3 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2014-05-15 16:12:10 UTC]

This bug is now a year old with no apparent progress.
Time to mark UPSTREAM?

[Comment 4 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2014-07-30 17:49:55 UTC]

Upstream doesn't consider it a bug and no feedback provided here.

Reopen if you wish to continue to discuss.