MySQL Bugs: #50322: RPM package information is incorrectly reporting my.cnf / mysqlmanager.passwd

Bug #50322	RPM package information is incorrectly reporting my.cnf / mysqlmanager.passwd
Submitted:	14 Jan 2010 9:24	Modified:	1 Dec 2016 13:39
Reporter:	Brett Cave	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Packaging	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.1.41	OS:	Linux (centos5 / rhel5)
Assigned to:	Balasubramanian Kandasamy	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	Bug #47372, my.cnf

Description:
See Bug #47372 "This is not a bug"

The RPM package reports that /etc/my.cnf and /etc/mysqlmanager.passwd is packaged. This is incorrect.

If the files are not provided by the RPM, then the RPM should not have them included in the %files section.

This will also occur if the srpm is used to rebuild the rpm.

How to repeat:

# rpm -ivh MySQL-server-community-5.1.[38-42]-0.rhel5.[x86_64 i386].rpm

# for file in `rpm -ql MySQL-server-community`; do
   if [ ! -e $file ]; then
      echo Not found: $file
   fi
done

Not found: /etc/my.cnf
Not found: /etc/mysqlmanager.passwd

Suggested fix:
FIX 1
-----
mysql-5.1.41.rhel5.spec, line 810 (not sure of line number in other releases) - remove:

touch $RBR%{_sysconfdir}/my.cnf
touch $RBR%{_sysconfdir}/mysqlmanager.passwd

line 1078, remove:
%ghost %config(noreplace,missingok) %{_sysconfdir}/my.cnf
%ghost %config(noreplace,missingok) %{_sysconfdir}/mysqlmanager.passwd

FIX 2
-----
create empty files and remove missingok from %files section.

The my.cnf file must not be placed always in /etc ... the server will look at 4 places to find it.

mysqld --verbose --help will show you where my.cnf can be placed per default.

Do you really think it would be clever to add a blanc file here e.g. in /etc which would overrule the file in e.g. /home

I agree, don't stick in a blank file is not a good idea at all, perhaps the best option would be to remove it from the %files section so that the rpm doesn't report it incorrectly?

We have to check here how difficult fixing will be here.

Many thank for pointing this out anyway.

Verfied as described.

Posted by developer:
 
By introduction of RPMS in MySQL repos, file /etc/my.cnf is indeed shipped and tracked as config file in server RPM package.