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mysql-5.7 package

  1. Bug #1567884
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1567884

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Lars Tangvald (lars-tangvald) wrote :

A first step would be to give a more helpful error message than «It didn't work».
Running mysqld --verbose --help 2>&1 > /dev/null can let us detect errors without starting up the database fully:

lars@lars-xenial2:~/git/mysql-5.7$ mysqld --verbose --help 2>&1 > /dev/null
2016-04-15T05:19:25.553086Z 0 [ERROR] unknown variable 'myisam-recover=BACKUP'
2016-04-15T05:19:25.555137Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting

So if that command fails we can abort early and pass on the error