I'm a bit late to this thread, but I ran into the same problem with the puppetlabs-mysql module - it's a bug in how the module was written. There is a fork by the folks at MediaTemple which addressed that issue:
https://github.com/mediatemple/puppetlabs-mysql I've been using that successfully for several months now to do exactly what you propose - specify an alternate location for the datadir and have the module install/configure/start mysqld with no intervention required. Chris On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Justin <tcpan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you tried creating a symlink (eg. /var/lib/mysql -> /mysql/data) > before installing with yum? > On Dec 3, 2013 8:40 PM, "Thomas" <thomas.e.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anybody sucessfully used puppetlabs-mysql (or some other method) to >> install MySQL-server on Linux with a my.cnf where datadir != /var/lib/mysql >> ? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/004002bb-577c-4d2d-8f51-ce62486dfeb6%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAAqoRT67a3k8U7UU0wOcAv-rPS_Vakeyjnv%2BQyN6G6W3AuTp5Q%40mail.gmail.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAFnaWbsHmJHbxPv%3Dqor%3D8uG7tqb0O5JdvnCx4uz7BKca9NY9Qg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
