Re: RPM (Was Re: Deity project schedule problems)
Hi,
>>"Philip" == Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
>> On the other hand, maybe it is time to revive talk about a
>> configration variable databse/snapshot (the last time this
>> degenerated into grandiose plans for a be all admintool, which will
>> take time because of the scope).
Philip> Rather than going over the top again, how about adding one
Philip> extra maintainer script (initially optional) called something
Philip> like `config' that, if present, gets run before the package
Philip> gets unpacked, that is allowed to ask the user questions, and
Philip> saves the answers somewhere that the other scripts can get at
Philip> later.
The problem I have with this is that we are shelving the
responsibility to the individual maintainers. I am loth to make any
policy without at least a detailed example (or a skeltal script that
does this). Also, the examples should probably not only be in Perl,
we need to provide shell script examples as well.
Philip> The intent being that at some point, we could think about
Philip> making the config script be the only one that is allowed to be
Philip> interactive, and also look at transfering responses from one
Philip> machine to another for a non-interactive install.
Philip> It would probably be a good idea to provide some set/get
Philip> method so that the config script does not need to worry about
Philip> how the values get stored.
Sounds good to me. We need to develop this into an example,
though.
manoj
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