[Novalug] Ubuntu upgrade question

[Geoff McNamara]

You might be interested in looking at this:
https://launchpad.net/mysql-sandbox

I have used it successfully in the past.
Also xlampp project can isolate the entire lampp application and data set
which can be appealing in some circumstances. I currently use this for dev
work.

-g-

> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:
>> Is there a way to set mysql up so that it stores the datafiles somewhere
>> in the /home/* subdirectory string so it is protected during
>> installation.
>
> You can achieve this *after* installing the relevant mysql* packages,
> but you can't do this *at* install-time.  Doing so requires stopping
> the mysql-server service, editing the necessary conffiles (namely
> passwd(5); see also getent(1)), moving the necessary directories from
> /var/lib to /home, checking permissions, and so on.
>
> -Dan
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