diff --git a/mariadb/PKGBUILD b/mariadb/PKGBUILD
index 0975b932e..8cfe2e541 100644
--- a/mariadb/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mariadb/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 pkgbase=mariadb
 pkgname=('libmariadbclient' 'mariadb-clients' 'mariadb')
 pkgver=5.5.44
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 arch=('x86_64')
 license=('GPL')
 url="http://mariadb.org/"
@@ -137,6 +137,4 @@ package_mariadb() {
   # not needed
   rm -r "${pkgdir}"/usr/{data,mysql-test,sql-bench}
   rm "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/man/man1/mysql-test-run.pl.1
-
-  install -dm700 "${pkgdir}"/var/lib/mysql
 }