Bug#617796: [debian-mysql] Bug#617796: mysql-server-5.1: Upgrade of debian, stable silently ERASED my years old mysql database (no backup)

2011-03-24 Thread Olaf van der Spek
maybe this bug should rather be closed. The submitter purged mysql-server and that did what it's supposed to do... I don't agree. Purging vi also doesn't remove all files you ever edited... I assume the debconf question is asked at install time, which could be years before the purge is

Bug#617796: [debian-mysql] Bug#617796: mysql-server-5.1: Upgrade of debian stable silently ERASED my years old mysql database (no backup)

2011-03-11 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 14:48 +0100 schrieb Carlo Wood: That didn't go *entirely* flawless, but within an hour I had everything updated... Could you please send me your /var/log/dpkg.log from the day when you upgraded your machine? Regards Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#617796: [debian-mysql] Bug#617796: mysql-server-5.1: Upgrade of debian stable silently ERASED my years old mysql database (no backup)

2011-03-11 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 16:22 +0100 schrieb Carlo Wood: Hi, the upgrade was done on Feb 2, 2011. The logs of that are attached as dpkg.log.2.gz If you mean Feb 7, then mysql-server-5.0 was purged at that day: 2011-02-07 21:03:29 purge mysql-server-5.0 5.0.51a-24+lenny4 5.0.51a-24+lenny4

Bug#617796: [debian-mysql] Bug#617796: mysql-server-5.1: Upgrade of debian stable silently ERASED my years old mysql database (no backup)

2011-03-11 Thread Carlo Wood
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:55:51 +0100 Norbert Tretkowski norb...@tretkowski.de wrote: Well... I guess I did that -- at the moment not thinking / remembering what I needed a sql database for... But I feel still pissed that it didn't warn me a little bit more clear before actually deleting database

Bug#617796: [debian-mysql] Bug#617796: mysql-server-5.1: Upgrade of debian stable silently ERASED my years old mysql database (no backup)

2011-03-11 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 17:28 +0100 schrieb Carlo Wood: Nevertheless, you say you just purged a package and the database is still there? It definitely isn't here :/ So, when did it get deleted? And by what? I don't know. If reinstalling the package simply overwrote the old database then