hi guys, i looked a little more into this...
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:31:27PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> + '[' -f /etc/mysql/dpkg__mysql_should_be_started ']'
> + exit 0
so that file wasn't there because it's only created by the preinst
script during fresh installs.
christian: i looked through README.maintainer and i'm still not
quite sure why we need this test logic at all. if we really do need
it, i think the following would fix it:
--- mysql-server-4.1.preinst.old 2005-02-28 00:56:51.000000000
-0500
+++ mysql-server-4.1.preinst 2005-02-28 00:57:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
| xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty chgrp mysql
# See debian/README.Maintainer for explanations.
-if [ "$1" = "install" ]; then
+if [ "$1" = "install" -o "$1" = "upgrade" ]; then
touch /etc/mysql/dpkg__mysql_should_be_started
fi
though you would know better than i.
sean
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