[Dbconfig-common-devel] Why is dbconfig-common asking for the password of the database's?administrative user?

[Xavier Luthi]

Hi Sean,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:53:25PM +0200, sean finney wrote:
> hiya xavier,
> 
> On Monday 31 March 2008 05:47:50 pm Xavier Luthi wrote:
> > I'm giving a try to dbconfig-common to one of my package (i.e. pixelpost)
> >
> > I'm quite surprised when using dbconfig-common to configure a mysql
> > database.  Why is it asking me for the password of the database's
> > administrative user?
> 
> mainly because that is not the intended use of the debian.cnf file, and 
> there's no guarantee that it will (a) be there or (b) work for this purpose.  
> my memory is a bit rusty, but iirc there's been some discussion of making it 
> an option to *try* this, but i don't think there's been a patch that does 
> things the way i'd like to see it done yet.
> 

My sponsor has a bug opened [1] on gallery2 package because the installation scripts
"should" use /etc/mysql/debian.cnf instead of asking the database root password...

In the bug description, it's even written that:
"
[...] gallery2 should simply use /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
which is automatically generated for the explicit purpose of being used
by Debian scripts.
"

It's a bit confusing for me...  Maybee I'll have to dig a bit more into mysql and
dbconfig-common to figure out what's the actual best way to use this file...

Cheers,
Xavier

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338960
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