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+#!/bin/bash -x
+
+# $1 is the db engine name, currently one of:
+#    mysql
+#    percona-server
+
+git pull
+
+# Percona support
+apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 1C4CBDCDCD2EFD2A
+cp etc/percona.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/percona.list
+
+apt-get update
+apt-get dist-upgrade -y
+apt-get install -y git python-pip libxml2-dev libxml2-utils libxslt-dev libmysqlclient-dev pep8 postgresql-server-dev-9.1 python2.7-dev python-coverage python-netaddr python-mysqldb $1-server python-git virtualenvwrapper python-numpy
+
+mkdir -p /var/log/mysql
+touch /var/log/mysql/slow-queries.log
+chown mysql.mysql /var/log/mysql/slow-queries.log
+
+chmod ugo+rx /var/log/mysql
+chmod ugo+r /var/log/syslog /var/log/mysql/slow-queries.log /var/log/mysql/error.log
+
+chown -R mysql.mysql /srv/mysql
+
+if [ -e /etc/logrotate.d/percona-server-server-5.5 ]
+then
+  rm /etc/logrotate.d/percona-server-server-5.5
+fi
+/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
+
+/etc/init.d/apparmor restart
+/etc/init.d/mysql restart