Bug 463680 – dev-db/mysql: /var/run -> /run is now tmpfs, breaking emerge --config and the init script

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) 2013-03-29 07:37:11 UTC]

/var/run is now a symlink to /run. /run is tmpfs.
/var/run/mysqld gets removed on every /run umount.

This broke both emerge --config dev-db/mysql and /etc/init.d/mysql.
The init script should create the directory on every start while the config script should either use another dir or create the same.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2013-03-29 15:26:45 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> /var/run is now a symlink to /run. /run is tmpfs.
> /var/run/mysqld gets removed on every /run umount.
> 
> This broke both emerge --config dev-db/mysql and /etc/init.d/mysql.
> The init script should create the directory on every start while the config
> script should either use another dir or create the same.

dev-db/mysql-init-script-2.0_pre1-r3 does exactly this for init scripts (using checkconfig). 

The build should create /var/run/mysqld upon install such that emerge --config is run successfully.

[Comment 2 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) 2013-03-29 16:07:51 UTC]

Yes, you're perfectly right. Killing the bug.