diff -Nur e-smith-mysql-2.6.0.old/createlinks e-smith-mysql-2.6.0/createlinks
--- e-smith-mysql-2.6.0.old/createlinks	2020-12-07 17:10:02.059000000 -0500
+++ e-smith-mysql-2.6.0/createlinks	2020-12-07 21:52:19.205000000 -0500
@@ -56,3 +56,27 @@
 safe_symlink("/var/service/mariadb", "root/service/mariadb");
 safe_symlink("../daemontools", "root/etc/rc.d/init.d/supervise/mariadb");
 service_link_enhanced("mariadb", 50, 7);
+
+#--------------------------------------------------
+# actions for e-smith-mysql-update event
+#--------------------------------------------------
+$event = "e-smith-mysql-update";
+
+foreach (qw(
+        /etc/my.cnf
+        /root/.my.cnf
+        /var/service/mariadb/set.password
+        ))
+{
+    templates2events("$_", $event);
+}
+
+safe_symlink("restart", "root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/mariadb");
+
+# Move all database dumps except for mysql.dump to sql/init
+event_link("mysql-load-tables", $event, "40");
+
+# systemd-specific action mandatory for this package-update event
+event_link("systemd-reload", $event, "89");
+event_link("systemd-default", $event, "88");
+