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Adding some tests for admin.py. Specifically for issue2550572: setting nosy=+foo on multiple issues gives them all the same exact nosy list. To make this work had to change the admin.py code to use "sys.stdout.write" in place of "print". In the test I now hijack stdout.write following an existing example of this for admin's import/export command that hijacks sys.stderr.write. Also I corrected a misspelling in security.py. The word "everything" was misspelled. It is not inside _() markers so I don't think it's going to affect translation and grepping the locale subdir doesn't show the original string.
author John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org>
date Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:35:19 -0400
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MySQL Backend
=============

This notes detail the MySQL backend for the Roundup issue tracker.


Prerequisites
=============

To use MySQL as the backend for storing roundup data, you also need 
to install:

1. MySQL RDBMS 4.0.18 or higher - http://www.mysql.com. Your MySQL
   installation MUST support InnoDB tables (or Berkeley DB (BDB) tables
   if you have no other choice). If you're running < 4.0.18 (but not <4.0)
   then you'll need to use BDB to pass all unit tests. Edit the
   ``roundup/backends/back_mysql.py`` file to enable DBD instead of InnoDB.
2. Python MySQL interface - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python

Running the MySQL tests
=======================

Roundup tests expect an empty MySQL database. Two alternate ways to provide 
this:

1. If you have root permissions on the MySQL server, you can create 
   the necessary database entries using the follwing SQL sequence. Use
   ``mysql`` on the command line to enter::

       CREATE DATABASE rounduptest;
       USE rounduptest;
       GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON rounduptest.* TO rounduptest@localhost
            IDENTIFIED BY 'rounduptest';
       FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

2. If your administrator has provided you with database connection info, 
   see the config values in 'test/db_test_base.py' 
   about which database connection, name and user will be used.

The MySQL database should not contain any tables. Tests will not 
drop the database with existing data.


Showing MySQL who's boss
========================

If things ever get to the point where that test database is totally hosed,
just::

  $ su -
  # /etc/init.d/mysql stop
  # rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/rounduptest
  # /etc/init.d/mysql start

and all will be better (note that on some systems, ``mysql`` is spelt
``mysqld``).


Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/