hi phillip, On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:38:59PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > What is consideres best practice when a package uses a SQL database > (mysql, postgresql) and needs to create its own catalog and/or tables? this is a very good question, which has not been conclusively answered and is still the subject of debate. there have been a few threads about it, but i don't imagine anything solid will come from them while everyone's still focused on sarge. > [ ] Disable the package until someone has manually setup the database? > [ ] Ask a lot of questions via debconf and try to setup in postconf? i'd suggest the latter if it's not too complicated. a few things to keep in mind though: - ask if they want to delete the database on purge - make a backup of the database during upgrades, "Just In Case" - don't store the pw in debconf, or at least ask the admin first if you think that it would be too complicated/flaky, i'd add a debconf note (of _low_ priority!) and put something in README.Debian. sean --
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