From: Bjorn Munch
Date: November 13 2012 10:06pm
Subject: Re: wondering about mysql_install_db in mysql-5.6.8-rc
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On 13/11 15.43, Rich Prohaska wrote:
> the mysql_install_db perl script does not chown the data directory
> correctly in 5.6.8-rc.

Unfortunately it doesn't (when using the --user option), as I have
also discovered, and I have filed a bug report.

> this line in the script is wrong:
> 
>   chown($opt->{user}, $dir) if -w "/" and !$opt->{user};
> 
> since chown expects a number not a name for the user id, and i am not
> sure that conditional is correct.

I'm not sure what you mean by number, but the condition is indeed not
correct and we shall have this fixed.

We're sorry about this!

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Bjorn Munch   Bjorn.Munch@stripped
MySQL Release Engineering
Trondheim, Norway