Re: Doing a clean install with ATYPICAL constraints
On Thu, 11 May 2017 12:50:07 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> I'm having problems with initial use of mariadb on Debian Testing.
> The *apparent* symptom is never being asked to provide an initial
> password an failure in creating one later.
>
OK, it looks like I'm wrong, and the Debian packaging of mariadb is
*not* a drop-in replacement for mysql, at least from a clean
installation.
I was sort of under the impression that Debian had changed horses to
mariadb, and managed it with metafiles and transition packages, but it
appears that both my wheezy server and my sid workstation are still on
mysql. I'm using mariadb, but apparently only on my Win8 laptop.
What is much more to the point is that the packages for sid (and
presumably other distributions) are utterly different, with
mysql-server-5.7 having all the expected Debian stuff, with its control
file containing the statement:
"This package contains all the infrastructure needed to setup system
databases."
The mariadb package, on the other hand, has a control directory that
contains only md5sums and control files: specifically, in this
particular situation, no postinst file. So mariadb is never going to be
configured by Debian on installation, and the OP's problem is
explained, at least to the first level.
The immediate answer in Debian would seem to be 'forget mariadb, install
mysql', but what about the longer term? Does anyone know where mariadb
is going in Debian? It would appear that mariadb can be installed
'properly' using a package from the mariadb site:
https://www.tecmint.com/install-mariadb-in-debian/
--
Joe
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