Bug 676898

Summary:	dev-db/mysql-5.7.24 mysqlbinlog: [ERROR] unknown variable 'default-character-set=utf8'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pavel Riha <pavel.riha>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux MySQL bugs team <mysql-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hydrapolic
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680318
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pavel Riha 2019-01-30 10:12:35 UTC

mysqlbinlog not working, because of the default-character-set option in [client] section in 
/etc/mysql/mysql.d/50-distro-client.cnf 


best(?) fix could be to use the loose- prefix

[client]
loose-default-character-set=utf8 




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-03-14 13:58:51 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=11e4f96f50b840f76e74385d5d63479378ecf252

commit 11e4f96f50b840f76e74385d5d63479378ecf252
Author:     Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-03-14 13:56:13 +0000
Commit:     Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-03-14 13:56:13 +0000

    dev-db/mysql: Fix config variable that can block mysqlbinlog
    
    Make it loose so programs that use it will and ignored by those that don't
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/676898
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.62, Repoman-2.3.12
    Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>

 dev-db/mysql/files/my.cnf.distro-client | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)