Description of problem: In the past, the configuration was read from three locations, one of them being /etc/mysql/my.cnf Now this location is omitted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mariadb-10.2.16-1.fc28 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /usr/libexec/mysqld --help --verbose | grep --after=1 '^Default options' | tail -n 1 Actual results: /etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf Expected results: /etc/mysql/my.cnf /etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf Additional info: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mysqld-configuration-files-and-groups/
So far it seems to me like an expected change introduced by the upstream. They just haven't update their KB articles yet. I'll ask the upstream specifically to make this clear. Is that any problem for the users?
(In reply to Michal Schorm from comment #1) > Is that any problem for the users? tricky question :-) it might be better answered by some support representative, however, from my experience, any changes in things that "just worked" for ages are always a problem, especially without any apparent reason for the change and without proper documentation
Upstream issue tracker created: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16879
Upstream documents those directories here: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/configuring-mariadb-with-mycnf/ so our packages are according to the RPM part there. The original idea of the patches in https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-6485 was to not hard-code the paths, but only use the CMAKE-configured paths for the my.cnf. Removing /etc/mysql/my.cnf was not the intention, I'd maybe call it even an incomplete patch, and it would probably be ok to include also "DEFAULT_SYSCONFDIR+/mysql". Anyway, since for our distros (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS), the path /etc/mysql/my.cnf was never used, and for non-RPM distros the /etc/mysql/my.cnf still works (according to https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/configuring-mariadb-with-mycnf/), I don't consider it a real problem for users and we should be fine to keep it as it is.
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