Should MariaDB touch my.cnf in %post?

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 17:03:57 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:34:36PM +0100, Honza Horak wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 09:10 PM, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> >Okay, so you suggest to do nothing - neither append the includedir line
> >to the existing my.cnf nor let mariadb read /etc/my.cnf.d/ automatically
> >and implicitly.
> >
> >That's fine :)
> >I was only trying to find an alternative to "let mariadb read
> >/etc/my.cnf.d implicitly" - because I don't like an idea of adding more
> >magic to the server, it has more than enough of it already.
> 
> Going back to the original idea -- it was that users will be confused
> if they'll see files under /etc/my.cnf.d/* which they can enhance but
> it won't take any effect. Well, adding a README file into
> /etc/my.cnf.d or some comments into files in that directory or even
> both, that would simply describe the need of !includedir, should just
> work. That shouldn't do any harm and should reduce confusing.
> 
+1   This seems like a good way of getting the user's attention without
being intrusive.

-Toshio
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