Re: postgresql and debconf [Re: package and dpkg improvements to help autoinstallers]
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:30, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 09:27, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> > what about simply asking the user if he wants automated upgrades,
> > specifing that they *require* interactive presence from the user? if the
> > user choose not to, every time an upgrade is necessary just mail root
> > and put in the mail the address of an upgrade script.
>
> I'd guess the big problem here would be how to install the new binaries.
>
> Perhaps as 'xxx.new' which the upgrade script would then move to the
> real names after having done the dump.
I don't think that is necessary, because the _old_ binaries are saved by
the prerm to make them available to the upgrade script. I really don't
want to have to write my own version of dpkg to handle the installation!
> Moving the actual update operation outside the pkg install seems a good
> idea to me; db upgrade is really something special. I'd compare it to
> the 'software upgrades must not touch /home' policy: db upgrades do
> exactly this, touching user data.
I would not want to be so absolute about this; it really depends on the
size and importance of the database. So far, I like the idea of letting
debconf ask whether to attempt to upgrade during installation.
Taking this line would have these consequences:
1. If the database version is unchanged, everything will upgrade
normally.
2. If the database version has changed, thus requiring initdb, either:
a) the database will become unavailable to all users until the
administrator does an upgrade by hand; or
b) the debconf setting allows us to attempt to upgrade during
installation, in which case we proceed as now.
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