Impossible to specify a MySQL connection socket

[steph@…]

It is possible that the local MySQL installation has networking disabled and located in a special path, so it is not reachable by Trac through the usual means.

Looking at the code on "trac/db/mysql_backend.py", you are using MySQLdb.connect to create a connection to the database, and this library permits to specify a socket instead of a host (unix_socket parameter).

SQLAlchemy for example permits the following DSN syntax:

mysql://root@localhost/db?unix_socket=/usr/local/mysql/mysql-5.5/data/mysql.sock

Expected behaviour: Users should be able to specify a MySQL socket instead of MySQL host when creating a new Trac installation with "trac-admin".

System Information: RHEL 5.3, Python 2.7, MySQL 5.1, Trac-0.12.3dev_r10578 (downloaded from SVN branch 0.12-stable)

[Remy Blank]

Already implemented in #5120, to be released in 0.13.