Thank you Christian! And sorry for the late follow-up. I agree that this is low prio, but low hanging fruit can be tasty too:-)
I have made a simple patch that envelopes the chmod and chown inside the if that runs mkdir. I can't see any scenario where this change will have negative effects. kind regards, -sigurd ** Patch added: "Diff for DEBIAN/postinst for mysql-5.*" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/+bug/1734129/+attachment/5021650/+files/bug1734129.diff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734129 Title: Postinst overrides permissions on /var/lib/mysql-files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/+bug/1734129/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
