Should MariaDB touch my.cnf in %post?

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 22:15:05 UTC 2013


On 02/15/2013 09:12 PM, Honza Horak wrote:
> On 02/15/2013 03:13 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 02/15/2013 12:52 PM, Honza Horak wrote:
>>> There is no change, the unit file is still mysqld.service.
>> Hmm..
>>
>> It's probably better to have an mariadb own unit files and create
>> corresponding mysql symbolic link to those unit files for backwards
>> compatibility at install time.
>> ( we already do so at few places to keep backwards compatibility with
>> the service command to systemd units in few places )
> I don't understand what would be the benefit, except that the files wouldn't conflict, but the packages conflict anyway currently.

User expectations as in if you install something called mariadb then 
it's expected that you start the service via systemctl start 
mariadb.service ( or service mariadb start ).

JBG


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