Bug #41074 Grammatical error in error message from install/request in Solaris package
Submitted: 27 Nov 2008 15:55 Modified: 23 Jan 2009 21:20
Reporter: Bjørn Munch Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1.30, 5.0.70, 6.0.8 OS:Solaris
Assigned to: Kent Boortz CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: install, pkg

[27 Nov 2008 15:55] Bjørn Munch 
Description:
When installing the svr4 package on a system which does not have a user and a group 'mysql', the pkgadd command fails:

This install require that the user 'mysql' and group 'mysql' exists

Now this is by design and expected, but the error message is not gramatically correct.  It should say 'requires' with an s.

I *think* there should NOT be an s in 'exists' since it refers to two subjects (user and group), not one, but not being a native English speaker I'm not 100% sure of that.

How to repeat:
Run pkgadd on the svr4 package file on a host which does not have the mysql user and group.

I only tested this with mysql-5.1.30-solaris10-i386.pkg but presume the script is common to all the different packages.
[27 Nov 2008 16:09] Bjørn Munch 
I think this belongs to packaging, not install, sorry
[27 Nov 2008 22:51] Sveta Smirnova 
Thank you for the report.

Verified as described.
[23 Jan 2009 21:20] Kent Boortz 
Change will be in 5.0.78, 5.1.32 and 6.0.10