There is an updated mysql handler that has been added to the svn repository that uses /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. Unfortunately, this only works for sqldump because mysqlhotcopy doesn't have such an option (so your patch, while appreciated, wouldn't work for both cases, if you can find a way to make it work with mysqlhotcopy that would be really useful information).
so, the new system is kind of haphazard, from the new example.mysql: ## authentication ## # three authentication methods: # 1. setting the user, so that /home/user/.my.cnf is used. # 2. specifying the dbuser and dbpassword, # which generates a temporary .my.cnf in /root/.my.cnf # 3. specify which config file to use with configfile # (this option does not work with hotcopy) I am making a new package with this, and a number of other updates, that will be uploaded soon. Micah
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