Hello Sergei, I look forward to using the patch. Please let me known when and where to find it.
Luckily, I used a test VM on amazon, so I did not try to recover. I just created a new VM. Also, I used CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Rich! > > On Jan 28, Rich Prohaska wrote: >> Hello Sergei, >> >> Mixed results when just using CMAKE_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX to build >> Mariadb RPMs with a non-default install prefix. >> >> Good news: the installed files use the supplied install prefix instead of >> /usr. >> >> Bad news: the server post install script blew up and killed my > > Ouch! Were you able to fix the onwership back? > >> machine. It did "chown -R mysql /" by mistake. The problem is caused >> by %{_sbindir} not being set to the new install directory. I hacked >> the post install script to print some debug info. >> >> running expr : / >> expr: syntax error >> sbindir=/usr/sbin >> bindir=/usr/bin >> basedir= >> datadir= >> >> As you can see, the expr command is run with a null datadir, which >> happens because /usr/sbin/mysqld does not exist, which happens because >> the _sbindir variable is "/usr/sbin" rather than >> CMAKE_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX/sbin. Any ideas how to fix this? > > First, it's CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX not > CMAKE_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX. I hope that's what you used, and it's a > typo in the email. > > Second, I'll soon fix the postinstall script to have some basic > consistency checks on basedir/datadir before chown. It's > https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4068 > > And third, I've created a patch that is supposed (as far as I've tested) > to fix this issue. I'll push it in a few days. > > Note that after this patch, you're supposed to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, > not CMAKE_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX. Like > > cmake . -DRPM=toku -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt > > Regards, > Sergei > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
