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authorunknown <mtaylor@qualinost.(none)>2007-04-11 16:13:09 -0700
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+###########################################################################
+# Here are some information that are only of interest to the Debiani #
+# maintainers of MySQL. #
+###########################################################################
+
+#
+# Remarks to dependencies
+#
+libwrap0-dev (>= 7.6-8.3)
+ According to bug report 114582 where where build problems on
+ IA-64/sid with at least two prior versions.
+psmisc
+ /usr/bin/killall in the initscript
+
+zlib1g in libmysqlclient-dev:
+ "mysql_config --libs" adds "-lz"
+
+Build-Dep:
+
+debhelper (>=4.1.16):
+ See po-debconf(7).
+
+autoconf (>= 2.13-20), automake1.7
+ Try to get rid of them.
+
+doxygen, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, gs
+ for ndb/docs/*tex
+
+mysql-server-5.0: Pre-Depends: mysql-common
+ This was necessary as mysql-server-5.0.preinst checks for unmodified
+ conffiles from mysql-server-4.1 and copies 5.0 ones over them to avoid
+ unnecessary dpkg questions. As mysql-server-5.0 is not unpacked at its
+ pre-inst stage, it had to copy those files from a package that is
+ definetly already unpacked which does not have to be the case with Depends.
+
+#
+# Remarks to the start scripts
+#
+
+## initscripts rely on mysqladmin from a different package
+We have the problem that "/etc/init.d/mysql stop" relies on mysqladmin which
+is in another package (mysql-client) and a passwordless access that's maybe
+only available if the user configured his /root/.my.cnf. Can this be a problem?
+* normal mode: not because the user is required to have it. Else:
+* purge/remove: not, same as normal mode
+* upgrade: not, same as normal mode
+* first install: not, it depends on mysql-client which at least is unpacked
+ so mysqladmin is there (to ping). It is not yet configured
+ passwordles but if there's a server running then there's a
+ /root/.my.cnf. Anyways, we simply kill anything that's mysqld.
+
+## Passwordless access for the maintainer scripts
+Another issue is that the scripts needs passwordless access. To ensure this
+a debian-sys-maint user is configured which has process and shutdown privs.
+The file with the randomly (that's important!) generated password must be
+present as long as the databases remain installed because else a new install
+would have no access. This file should be used like:
+ mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf restart
+to avoid providing the password in plaintext on a commandline where it would
+be visible to any user via the "ps" command.
+
+## When to start the daemon?
+We aim to give the admin full control on when MySQL is running.
+Issues to be faced here:
+OLD:
+ 1. Debconf asks whether MySQL should be started on boot so update-rc.d is
+ only run if the answer has been yes. The admin is likely to forget
+ this decision but update-rc.d checks for an existing line in
+ /etc/runlevel.conf and leaves it intact.
+ 2. On initial install, if the answer is yes, the daemon has to be started.
+ 3. On upgrades it should only be started if it was already running, everything
+ else is confusing. Especiall relying on an debconf decision made month ago
+ is considered suboptimal. See bug #274264
+ Implementation so far:
+ prerm (called on upgrade before stopping the server):
+ check for a running server and set flag if necessary
+ preinst (called on initial install and before unpacking when upgrading):
+ check for the debconf variable and set flag if necessary
+ postinst (called on initial install and after each upgrade after unpacking):
+ call update-rc.d if debconf says yes
+ call invoce-rc.d if the flag has been set
+ Problems remaining:
+ dpkg-reconfigure and setting mysql start on boot to yes did not start mysql
+ (ok "start on boot" literally does not mean "start now" so that might have been ok)
+NEW:
+ 1. --- no debconf anymore for the sake of simplicity. We have runlevel.conf,
+ the admin should use it
+ 2. On initial install the server is started.
+ 3. On upgrades the server is started exactly if it was running before so the
+ runlevel configuration is irrelevant. It will be preserved by the mean of
+ update-rc.d's builtin check.
+ Implementation:
+ prerm (called on upgrade before stopping the server):
+ check for a running server and set flag if necessary
+ preinst (called on initial install and before unpacking when upgrading):
+ check for $1 beeing (initial) "install" and set flag
+ postinst (called on initial install and after each upgrade after unpacking):
+ call update-rc.d
+ call invoce-rc.d if the flag has been set