Bug 1039978

Summary:	mysql_config nonzero return code on usage message
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Karel Volný <kvolny>
Component:	mariadb	Assignee:	Honza Horak <hhorak>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	databases-maint, hhorak, jdornak
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1039975	Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-01-21 12:36:16 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Bug Depends On:	1039975
Bug Blocks:

Description Karel Volný 2013-12-10 13:00:45 UTC

cloning to track failure in our test for the appropriate RHEL version

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1039975 +++

Description of problem:
Trying to run mysql_config without parameters, it returns nonzero exit code. But this is not an error, the application should return zero.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mariadb-5.5.33a-1.fc19

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mysql_config >/dev/null; echo $?

Actual results:
1

Expected results:
0

Additional info:
from the manpage:

"If you invoke mysql_config with no options, it displays a list of all options that it supports, and their values:"

so, invoking without parameters is correct usage ...

note also that it'd be nice to support the "--help" option, but that's more RFE material than a bug

Comment 2 Honza Horak 2013-12-12 15:57:33 UTC

Let's wait for upstream opinion.

Comment 3 Honza Horak 2014-01-07 16:08:55 UTC

Unless upstream accepts it soon, I'm moving it for RHEL-7.1.

Comment 4 Honza Horak 2014-01-21 12:36:16 UTC

Now it is quite late for such minor changes in RHEL-7, so deferring to upstream. If they accept that change, it will most probably get into RHEL-7 together with some security update/rebase.