emerging dev-db/mysql for the first time on a system results in a nonworking mysql install: no 'mysql' user / group are created. Tracking down where this was supposed to happen, /usr/portage/eclass/mysql-v2.eclass contains a mysql-v2_pkg_setup function whose job is to, among other things, create the mysql user & group if not present. However, this function is never called during installation. I think it is because the EXPORT_FUNCTIONS line is missing pkg_setup, so mysql-v2_pkg_setup is never pulled in. Note that any system on which mysql has ever been installed in the past, should have the user/group already. So this will only be noticed on fresh installations--on which it is a showstopper. I will attach a one-line patch to mysql-v2.eclass that adds pkg_setup to EXPORT_FUNCTIONS. With this, building mysql adds the user/group as expected (it might not be the right fix though). Reproducible: Always Probably the most relevant thing is my version of mysql-v2.eclass: # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/mysql-v2.eclass,v 1.1 2011/07/13 07:01:47 robbat2 Exp $
Created attachment 280421 [details, diff] Add a missing 'pkg_setup' entry to EXPORT_FUNCTIONS in mysql-v2.eclass
I fixed this a few days ago on the overlay, but never pushed it to the tree. Fixed now. The mysql-5.1.58 ebuild is still failing as I need to rework the 07110 patch.
