Bug #82639 | 5.7 Apt get install automatically overwrites old cnf | ||
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Submitted: | 18 Aug 2016 18:25 | Modified: | 3 Jun 2021 18:53 |
Reporter: | Erick Franco | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Package Repos | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
Version: | 5.7.14 | OS: | Ubuntu (14.0.4) |
Assigned to: | Lars Tangvald | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[18 Aug 2016 18:25]
Erick Franco
[19 Aug 2016 5:12]
Lars Tangvald
The current solution was chosen to fix problems with upgrading from different versions and variants, but it should be done better so it doesn't subvert user configurations.
[30 Nov 2016 2:06]
Javier Rivera Zavala
Posted by developer: This is working as designed. What can be done is promoting the issue to an enhancement request.
[3 Jun 2021 18:53]
Paul DuBois
Posted by developer: Fixed in 8.0.26. For upgrades on Ubuntu, if an existing my.cnf file is found, it is renamed to my.cnf.bak and a warning is issued.