Re: Wwwconfig-common, was: Re: Web applications
Hello
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:38:16AM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@m4x.org> writes:
>
> > Le Jeu 19 Août 2004 19:50, Ola Lundqvist a écrit :
> >> Yesterday I did a reverse depends on wwwconfig-common and was a bit
> >> surprised. So many packages depending on my hack! I thought that maybe
> >> 7-10 packages depended on it, but not 48!!! Well some are my own but
> >> really not all of them.
> >
> > it's because it's a marvelous idea, it's normative, and you can assume
> > that the tool will evolve with the package it allows to configure. it's
> > cool for a packager.
>
Thanks!
> > that's why we cannot really rewrite wwwconfig-common, but replace it
> > with a new package, with new things in it.
>
> Perhaps more than one package: At the moment, wwwconfig-common does
> two things well:
Agreed!
> 1. Querying/Editing Apache config files
> 2. Setting up databases (good support for MySQL, decent support for
> PostgreSQL)
>
> Usage of the /etc/apache/conf.d/ directory probably makes most cases
> of (1) unnecessary, but (2) needs some work, especially for
> adding/deleting users and databases.
Agreed. Postgres support is not very good either. Someone that is good
on postgres are very welcome to give me patches. It has been better
lately but I'm not sure that it is in good shape.
> > wrt to the interpreter, I agree, we have not to depend on too much
> > things. Shell scripts are fine, be we can use perl too (it's
> > «standard») for example. But I like the sh thing, that with a bit of
> > dialog, I think all will be just fine.
>
> The only real problem I have with the shell scripts is that they are
> so poorly documented.
Documentation is _very_ welcome!
> A nice thing to have available to posinst scripts would be a script
> that checks whether a database setup that has been specified using
> Debconf is available at all.
Hmm that may be a good thing. Such a script is very welcome.
Regards,
// Ola
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