ports/182547: [PATCH] databases/mariadb55-server: Respect hier(7) (also affects databases/mariadb55-client)

[Miroslav Lachman]

The following reply was made to PR ports/182547; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz>
To: Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, 
 Alexandr Kovalenko <never at nevermind.kiev.ua>
Subject: Re: ports/182547: [PATCH] databases/mariadb55-server: Respect hier(7)
 (also affects databases/mariadb55-client)
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:52:01 +0200

 I totally agree with you from the FreeBSD point of view. But on another 
 way, I can imagine somebody with my.cnf configuration file in /etc/ even 
 on FreeBSD, because it is documented in manpage
 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/option-files.html and because it 
 was "default" in MariaDB for a long time
 It is better to not break some "rare user's" setup.
 
 If we decide to get rid of /etc/ and /etc/mysql/ dirs, then it shoul be 
 mentioned in UPDATING too and maybe provide some check on install or 
 service re-start for transitional time which will again warn the user 
 about this change (beside the pkg-message). Becaus missing my.cnf at 
 startup can cause serious problem.
 
 Miroslav Lachman